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The Origins of Money in Diablo II

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Re: The Origins of Money in Diablo II

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Thanks OP for posting that. I've long been fascinated by how the d2 economics work and it always looked to me like a very interesting environment to study economic behaviors.

I haven't opened the paper yet, but I hope d2jsp's FGs (diablo 2 community's third party fiat currency system) are included in the analysis as well.

Re: The Origins of Money in Diablo II

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The downside of studying economics in Diablo II is that it's an entirely non-coercive environment, whereas real-world economic behaviour is essentially defined by coercion.

That said, many economists are fully capable of ignoring the compulsive aspect of economics regardless, so perhaps for them, Diablo II is a perfect microcosm.

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