134: Edward Castronova on the Economy of Virtual Worlds

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. Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/edwardcastronova Support the podcast at Patreon at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

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