The idea of price reflecting information is behind the "prediction markets" that came into being many decades later. Moreover, "prediction markets theory," which uses market mechanisms to make observations about various social trends, has for two decades been growing by leaps and bounds around the world.
在這種「價格反映資訊」的假設下，另一種全新期貨標的──「事件期貨」也在數十年後因應而生，而這套透過市場機制來觀察各種社會議題發生趨勢的研究方法，則稱為「預測市場」理論，並在最近 20 年陸續於全球各國發光發熱。