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Posts tagged magritte
“ The virtual world we studied appears to behave in the way a real economy does. The people there are as rational (or irrational) as we are offline. As a result, there are price indexes, an inflation rate, etc. This suggests some at least rough mapping is taking place for the world’s economics, and that maybe, just maybe, these worlds might serve as testbeds for economic research and policy tests.
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Terra Nova: Virtual economy: As real as real