Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

futarchy en · NOUN

Etymology

Perhaps a blend of (idea) futures + -archy.

Meanings

  1. A form of government proposed by economist Robin Hanson, in which elected officials define measures of national welfare and prediction markets are used to determine which policies will have the most positive effect.
    • [Vitalik Buterin is] an unabashed geek whose eyes spark when he alights upon one of his favorite concepts, whether it be quadratic voting or the governance system futarchy. 2022 March 18, Andrew Chow, “The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto's Future”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2022:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
futarchies Number=Plur lexicographic