reporters
can get things. I'm introduced as giving the name decision markets
to the Iowa Electronic Markets and to the marketing markets described.
But I introduced the term to be specific to markets that estimate the
consequences of decisions, rather than just markets that might somehow
be informative for decisions. Anyone want to give odds that I'll be
able to keep the term meaning what I want it to mean? :-)
According to Stigler (the statistician, not the economist) almost
every named scientific term is in error. So I'd say the odds
are huge that your name will be
