134: Edward Castronova on the Economy of Virtual Worlds
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English - March 30, 2018 22:55 - 1 hour - 38.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsCourses Education Business Investing economists education finance university behavioraleconomics bitcoin careers college economics freakonomics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Edward Castronova is professor of Telecommunication and Cognitive Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He pioneered the study of how money, value, and property flow inside online games like Everquest
Castronova’s paper Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier became the most downloaded paper in the entire database — beating out works by dozens of Nobel laureates. Today, it’s still in the top three.
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