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Robin Hanson, PhD: Healthcare Signaling, the Conspicuous Caring Hypothesis, and Prediction Markets in Medicine

The External Medicine Podcast

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Introduction

Robin Hanson is an economist at GMU, George Mason University. He got his PhD in 1997 from Caltech after a four-year graduate program. His introduction to health and medicine was during a two-year health policy postdoc. In 1999 he came up with a simple signaling story to address many of these puzzles. It led him to consider similar explanations to make sense of other industries or human behavior.

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