Archive for the ‘Famous wagers’ Category

  • Simmons–Tierney bet

    Monday, February 22nd, 2010

    The Simmons-Tierney bet is a bet made in August 2005 between Houston banking executive Matthew R. Simmons and New York Times columnist John Tierney.[1] The stakes of the bet are US$10,000.00. The subject of the bet is the year-end average of the daily price-per-barrel of crude oil for the entire calendar year [...]

  • Carr–Benkler wager

    Monday, January 25th, 2010

    Yochai Benkler speaking at UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of law on 27 April 2006.
    Nicholas Carr speaking at the VINT Symposium held in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 17, 2008.
    The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced [...]