Re: Economist Olympics?

2000-09-21 Thread Eric Crampton
Everything has to be done by the public sector and supported by taxes. This game would be quite bad for testing interesting policy options. On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Chris Rasch wrote: > Does anyone know if anyone has held an "economist Olympics?" via one of these > games (e.g. Sim City

Re: Economist Olympics?

2000-09-21 Thread William Dickens
>Can such games model reality well enough to give interesting results? Interesting to whom? To game players yes. For certain purposes there are useful models that can help people understand how systems operate and predict outcomes. >Would economists agree on the meta-rules enough to agree to pa

Economist Olympics?

2000-09-21 Thread Chris Rasch
Does anyone know if anyone has held an "economist Olympics?" via one of these games (e.g. Sim City)? It seems like it might be a fun tool for evaluating policy proposals. For example, suppose two economists disagreed about the effects of a given policy proposal. To resolve the i