Prices set by people with money at stake aggregate dispersed information better than any designated evaluator, so markets can discipline an agent on whatever outcomes they can observe and price, and on nothing else.

Evidence 4 passages

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  it does not support the *efficient markets hypothesis* that price is a sufficient statistic for all private information held by traders.

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  Knowledge that is nontransactional, unpriced, strategically withheld, or borne by outsiders may be absent.

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  racetrack market odds improve on the prediction of racetrack experts

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  The key issue is not absolute accuracy, but accuracy relative to other institutions, on the same topics, given similar resources.

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