
arXiv: 1609.03223
The solution to science's replication crisis is a new ecosystem in which scientists sell what they learn from their research. In each pairwise transaction, the information seller makes (loses) money if he turns out to be correct (incorrect). Responsibility for the determination of correctness is delegated, with appropriate incentives, to the information purchaser. Each transaction is brokered by a central exchange, which holds money from the anonymous information buyer and anonymous information seller in escrow, and which enforces a set of incentives facilitating the transfer of useful, bluntly honest information from the seller to the buyer. This new ecosystem, capitalist science, directly addresses socialist science's replication crisis by explicitly rewarding accuracy and penalizing inaccuracy.
2 pages (main text) + 5 pages (references)
FOS: Economics and business, Physics - Physics and Society, General Economics (econ.GN), FOS: Physical sciences, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Economics - General Economics
FOS: Economics and business, Physics - Physics and Society, General Economics (econ.GN), FOS: Physical sciences, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Economics - General Economics
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