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futarchies

futarchies is the plural of futarchy.

Meaning of futarchy

Noun

futarchy (plural futarchies)

  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

Questions about futarchies

What is futarchies the plural of?
Futarchies is the plural of futarchy.

Words near futarchies in the dictionary

  1. futanaris
  2. futanarisation
  3. futanarisations
  4. futanarization
  5. futanarizations
  6. futarchies
  7. futarchy
  8. futas
  9. futbol
  10. futch
  11. futchel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: futarchies (page history and authors); futarchy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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