EVE Online's economist speaks — economics as an experimental science

This week's BusinessWeek Innovation of the Week podcast talks with Eyjolfur Guomundsson, the house economist for EVE Online, a massively multiplayer space game based on establishing and disrupting interplanetary trade. What's fascinating here is getting the perspective of an economist whose job is to design an economy that's "fun" — or at least engrossing. It's not often that you get to hear economics described as an experimental science.

An Economist on the Virtual Economy