The gold standard: A WoW economics course proposal

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1-10-2009 @ 6:32PM

eadipus said...

I think the differences between a real world economy and the heavily managed WoW economy where sources of money can be created/destroyed/adjusted at will is what would make a course/paper/article interesting. Considering how so many aspects of our life are moving online, particularly media purchasing, I think its relevant to study how a managed economy can work and comparing it to less controlled systems (eve comes to mind). Virtual economies are becoming part of our lives and understanding them properly is making people a small amount of money at the moment (gold farming etc) but in the future its likely to become huge.

Just because its massively different to the system we use in the real world at the moment doesn't mean its not relevant to us. For example whats happening in Zimbabwe is unlikely to ever happen here (UK) but I'd still expect an economics student to study it.

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