| Today's virtual worlds have their own virtual economies, whether you're coughing up enough gold to buy an epic mount in World of Warcraft or converting real money to Linden dollars so you can buy realistic genitalia for your Second Life avatar. EVE Online, a sci-fi online game of space warfare and commerce, may have the deepest, most complex virtual economy in the world. It's so deep, in fact, that EVE Online has a chief economist, Eyjolfur Guomundsson. What do real economists think of fake economies? Guomundsson recently talked to BusinessWeek, and he had some surprising things to say.
Guomundsson has been working with EVE Online since 2004, eve isk when he was struck by the innovative idea behind the game's design
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