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The most amazing example of such cooperation is Yanis Varoufakis, who was working for Valve on virtual currencies and economy of Steam Market before becoming Mi

• chiph 10y ago
  I saw Gabe make a presentation at the University of Texas a few years ago, and Yanis was sitting in the front row. Not being an economist myself, I had no good questions for them. And I gather that Gabe was a little annoyed at all the questions around upcoming releases and not the topic of his speech. In hindsight, I would have asked Yanis if he was overwhelmed by the detail of the data that Valve collects on their market - both the Steam store and the in-game markets. Conventional public economic data would seem to have to be used with caution, as there are people at all levels looking to sway the numbers in different directions (ahh .. politics!), but the Valve data would have been base numbers without any "processing". And there's a lot of it.