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Eve's player-based economy is really badass, to the point that they have an economist on staff to generate reports like these. I just read somewhere that their

Eve's player-based economy is really badass, to the point that they have an economist on staff to generate reports like these. I just read somewhere that their economist left in 2014.

imchillyb 10y ago
His name: Eyjolfur Gudmundsson Rector at University of Akureyri IcelandComputer Games Current: University of Akureyri Previous: CCP https://is.linkedin.com/in/dreyjog https://is.linkedin.com/in/dreyjog ----- Dr. EyjoG felt an itch to apply some of the lessons he’d learned at Eve to the world of higher ed. So when Akureyri advertised for a new president in 2014, he once more found himself jumping industries. http://web.uri.edu/quadangles/the-virtual-economist/ http://web.uri.edu/quadangles/the-virtual-economist/
- jjoonathan 10y ago
  See also: Yanis Varoufakis http://www.ibtimes.co.in/valve-economist-yanis-varoufakis-appointed-finance-minister-greece-621689 http://www.ibtimes.co.in/valve-economist-yanis-varoufakis-ap...
  - jbpetersen 10y ago
    Notably he went from being an in-house economist for Valve Software to being the Greece's minister of finance.