December 29, 2017 02:10 pm PST
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The internal economics of a popular Minecraft server are an object lesson in everything great and terrible about markets
Alice Maz was part of a small group of players who came to have near-total mastery over the internal economy of a popular Minecraft; Maz describes how her early fascination with the mechanics of complex multiplayer games carried over into an interest in economics and games, and that let her become a virtuoso player, and brilliant thinker, about games and economics. (more…)
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