[stcredzero]

Eve's player-based economy is really badass, to the point that they have an economist on staff to generate reports like these.

I just read somewhere that their economist left in 2014.

[imchillyb]

His name:

Eyjolfur Gudmundsson

Rector at University of Akureyri

IcelandComputer Games

Current: University of Akureyri

Previous: CCP

https://is.linkedin.com/in/dreyjog

----- Dr. EyjoG felt an itch to apply some of the lessons he’d learned at Eve to the world of higher ed. So when Akureyri advertised for a new president in 2014, he once more found himself jumping industries.

http://web.uri.edu/quadangles/the-virtual-economist/

[jjoonathan]

See also: Yanis Varoufakis

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/valve-economist-yanis-varoufakis-ap...

[jbpetersen]

Notably he went from being an in-house economist for Valve Software to being the Greece's minister of finance.