Economics and Social Conflict
Evil Actions and Evil Social Institutions in Virtual Worlds
Authors: Mildenberger, C.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-7
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Introducing Moral Evil and Natural Evil
Pages 8-33
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Defining Evil in an Economic Way
Pages 34-76
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Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Play Games as a Field of Research
Pages 77-120
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EVE Online
Pages 121-146
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Economics and Social Conflict
- Book Subtitle
- Evil Actions and Evil Social Institutions in Virtual Worlds
- Authors
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- C. Mildenberger
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-28189-0
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137281890
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-28188-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-44838-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 258
- Topics
