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This makes me wonder to what extent online games could be used to model/explore/study economic and social theories. Here we have an example of hyperinflation h
by te_platt 13y ago
This makes me wonder to what extent online games could be used to model/explore/study economic and social theories. Here we have an example of hyperinflation happening. Could you reliably reproduce the results? Could you reliably adjust conditions to lead to expected results? If so how accurately?
I think you could get results much better analyzing surveys because of the seriousness people put into games.
- idunno246 13y agovalve hired an economist do do something like that. http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email/ http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...
- zokier 13y agoAnd EVE online has had economist onboard since 2007 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=virtual-world-economists-on-real-economies http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=virtual-wor...