EVE Online's economist speaks -- economics as an experimental science

By at 5:49 pm Thursday, Oct 2

This week's BusinessWeek Innovation of the Week podcast talks with Eyjolfur Guomundsson, the house economist for EVE Online, a massively multiplayer space game based on establishing and disrupting interplanetary trade. What's fascinating here is getting the perspective of an economist whose job is to design an economy that's "fun" -- or at least engrossing. It's not often that you get to hear economics described as an experimental science. An Economist on the Virtual Economy

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* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
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