Economics in video games

Here's a great blog post at the Washington Post on economics in video games. There are interviews with the economists on staff at CCP (producers of the MMO game EVE Online), and Valve (Team Fortress 2), as well as comm researchers including Dmitri Williams at USC. Great discussion about economic behavior in video games as well as the difficulties of studying such behavior academically. I'd love to talk about this at our Oct. 8 meeting.