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The politics of betting

Using markets to forecast political events may not be as strange an idea as it seemed in July, when a terrorism futures scheme collapsed. But there is still scepticism as to whether such an approach would be ethical or effective. By Maria Kielmas

Ephraim Clarke is no longer a lonely man. Professor of finance at Middlesex University Business School in the UK and head of risk consultancy Countrymetrics, Clarke has spent years working on a methodology to develop derivatives securities that could be used to manage country risk.

But in late July the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) launched a pilot project

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