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Virtual Economies : Design and Analysis /
How the basic concepts of economics--including markets, institutions, and money--can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money. Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other ga...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Virtual Economies : |b Design and Analysis / |c Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Series foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theories of human behavior -- Goods : material, digital, virtual types of goods -- Supply and demand -- Regulating markets -- Market power and pricing -- Methods of exchange -- Externalities and secondary market trade -- Institutions and non-market allocation -- Money -- Macroeconomic design -- Macroeconomic management -- Policy making -- Why the real world needs virtual economy design -- Notes -- References -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a How the basic concepts of economics--including markets, institutions, and money--can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money. Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind every virtual sale, there is a virtual economy, simple or complex. In this book, Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova introduce the basic concepts of economics into the game developer's and game designer's toolkits. Lehdonvirta and Castronova explain how the fundamentals of economics--markets, institutions, and money--can be used to create or analyze economies based on artificially scarce virtual goods. They focus on virtual economies in digital games, but also touch on serious digital currencies such as Bitcoin as well as virtual economies that emerge in social media around points, likes, and followers. The theoretical emphasis is on elementary microeconomic theory, with some discussion of behavioral economics, macroeconomics, sociology of consumption, and other social science theories relevant to economic behavior. Topics include the rational choice model of economic decision making; information goods versus virtual goods; supply, demand, and market equilibrium; monopoly power; setting prices; and externalities. The book will enable developers and designers to create and maintain successful virtual economies, introduce social scientists and policy makers to the power of virtual economies, and provide a useful guide to economic fundamentals for students in other disciplines. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Datorstödd konstruktion. |2 sao | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Virtuell verklighet |x ekonomiska aspekter. |2 sao | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Elektroniska spel. |2 sao | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Realite virtuelle |x Aspect economique. |2 ram | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Monnaie electronique. |2 ram | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Wirtschaft |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Virtuelle Realität |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Computerspiel |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Electronic games. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00907227 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Computer-aided design. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00872701 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Macroeconomie. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Aspects economiques. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Programmation informatique. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Commerce electronique. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Monnaie electronique. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Internet. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Reseaux sociaux en ligne. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Realite virtuelle. |2 eclas | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Economics |x Comparative. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a GAMES |x Board. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a computer-aided designs (visual works) |2 aat | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Conception assistee par ordinateur. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Realite virtuelle |x Aspect economique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Environnements virtuels partages |x Aspect economique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Computer-aided design. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Virtual reality |x Economic aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Shared virtual environments |x Economic aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Electronic games. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Castronova, Edward. | |
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