From Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England:

“According to the Charter of the Forest... poachers should not have their hands cut off, as in the days of King John, but loss of limb is still meted out on their animals. Thus a poacher who escapes with a fine will still see his dog lose a paw.”

Another revolting proof of the cruelty innate to our species.

Play Time

Analysis of MMORPG play as economic activity

Play Time is an economic analysis of play in massively-multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG) that I wrote back in 2004. It began as an undergraduate ‘honors thesis’, but — like most of my projects — it grew to a monstrous size and carried me away with it.

Contents

Play Time was originally written as one long and rather heterogeneous paper, but I have since revised and reorganized; it now comprises a general introduction and three separate monographs. It should be accessible to anyone who has taken a few undergraduate economics courses: