As real as real? Macroeconomic behavior in a large-scale virtual world

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  New Media & Society

• Publication date

  2009-07-21

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Economics

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  DOI 10.1177/1461444809105346
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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