Virtual Economics

Brian Doherty | 5.12.2004 12:57 PM

Here is a fascinating–and very long–article on the rise of real-world economic institutions surrounding virtual game worlds, including currency traders, brokers and arbitragers in virtual goods, low-wage sweatshops, and, of course, academic economists to study them all.

Reason has taken a look at such virtual issues in our April issue, with articles by Jesse Walker and Kevin Parker.

[Link via Arts and Letters Daily]

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).