Economics and Social Conflict

Evil Actions and Evil Social Institutions in Virtual Worlds

C. Mildenberger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2013 | 1st ed. 2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-44838-8 (ISBN)

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This book brings to life the classic thought experiment of a natural state. Provides data on the economic aspects of social conflict of 400.000 people living in a virtual anarchy; showing evil actions and rules exist from an economic perspective. Non-instrumental violence has economic effects and inciting people to fight are not overcome in time.

CARL D. MILDENBERGER studied business and economics in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Boston, USA, and Witten, Germany, as well as philosophy in Paris, France, and St Andrews, UK. He is currently Lecturer in New Institutional Economics and Philosophy of the Social Sciences at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.

Introduction Introducing Moral Evil and Natural Evil Defining Evil in an Economic Way Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Play Games as a Field of Research EVE Online Piracy Suicide Gangs Wars – Other Forms of Natural Evil in EVE Altruism in EVE – a Simple Experiment of Online 'Dictator Games' Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 258 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
Schlagworte	conflict • Economics • Institutions • Research
ISBN-10	1-349-44838-9 / 1349448389
ISBN-13	978-1-349-44838-8 / 9781349448388
Zustand	Neuware