Robin Hanson is an economist and prediction-market researcher who created the concept of futarchy, a governance model that uses betting markets to determine which policies raise welfare. Robin Hanson's Twitter Score is 281 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,220 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where his research spans health economics and political economy. He serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Futarchy.fi, the project that credits him with originating the futarchy concept, which he described as "vote on values, but bet on beliefs." The Ethereum Foundation has discussed futarchy's applications for decentralized autonomous organizations and cryptographic protocols, citing Hanson as its originator.
Robin Hanson is an advisor to MetaDAO, a fundraising and governance platform for founders and communities that applies market-driven governance through ownership coins. He is also an advisor to Butter, identified on the platform as @butterygg. His academic work includes authoring a paper on logarithmic market scoring rules, a prediction-market mechanism with direct relevance to automated market-making for prediction markets.
Robin Hanson has 125,082 followers as of August 2026 and has published 72,326 posts. He has been mentioned by 349 accounts, with 1,272 total mentions.
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