Knowledge Problem

George Mason University’s Other Stars

Michael Giberson

The Washington Post‘s business section, no doubt eager to jump into the Mason Mania that has permeated the rest of the newspaper, ran a story today about the other star team on campus: the economics department. It’s a fairly lightweight story — after all it ain’t basketball — but they spelled all the names right, talked to Robin Hanson about prediction markets, and gave props to former Mason professor Bob Tollison, a “sport-o-metrics ” pioneer.

UPDATE: See GMU Law Prof Todd Zywicki’s more detailed and insightful post on this topic at The Volokh Conspiracy. Of course I should have mentioned the GMU law faculty as the other other star team on campus.