Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis By Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9525.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323314 Publication date: 2014 How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. …
An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project—advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery—that hoodwinked the New York art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines—Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews—for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at…
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the value of the university armed service units – the University Officer Training Corps, University Royal Naval Units and University Air Squadrons. The units, many of which date back to the early 20th century, exist in order to provide students at UK universities with an experience of the British armed forces. Participation in the units is enti…
Studies based on the Rankine-Hugoniot relations have classified MHO shock waves as fast, switch-on, intermediate, switch-off, and slow. Any waves found in nature must also: (a) possess steady-state structures and (b) be stable in the presence of small-flow disturbances. In this monograph, Dr. Anderson examines these criteria in relation to plane shocks for which the collision frequency is large…
Experts from MIT explore recent advances in cybersecurity, bringing together management, technical, and sociological perspectives. Ongoing cyberattacks, hacks, data breaches, and privacy concerns demonstrate vividly the inadequacy of existing methods of cybersecurity and the need to develop new and better ones. This book brings together experts from across MIT to explore recent advances in cybe…
With contributions from some of the leading thinkers in business school education, this book explores the impact and purpose of the business school, and addresses some of the most important questions facing management education today. The diverse perspectives brought together by the EFMD in this volume examine a number of common questions, themes and challenges. These include: whether busine…
Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain's telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the ris…
Environmental management; marine; freshwater sciences
Termasuk prosiding lengkap Konferensi Internasional Pemasaran Layanan 1988, Menawarkan penelitian dan wawasan mutakhir di bidang pemasaran, Termasuk kontribusi yang berkaitan dengan riset pemasaran, strategi pemasaran, dan perilaku konsumen. --> Buku ini mencakup informasi atau makalah yang berkaitan dengan "Workshop Kurikulum Pemasaran Jasa" dengan fokus pada " Strategi dan Teknik Pemasaran Ja…
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book prov…