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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Apr 7, 2008 08:22am

In addition to the regular scheduled Metanomics session today at 11:00am PST on Experimental Economics in Virtual Worlds, there is a special event of interest to educators - at 2:00 PM PST join us also at Outreach on NMC Campus for a live event. Charles Nesson from Harvard will be giving a lecture in Second Life on the future of the university.

Metanomics: Experimental Economics in Virtual Worlds

When: Monday, April 7 at 11:00am PST (check local time)
Where: Amphitheater on Outreach (87, 125, 34) (no group membership is required to teleport)

Robert Bloomfield and Metanomics will host a panel on the challenges and opportunities of conducting economic experiments in virtual worlds. Our guests include:

- Tom Chesney, Lecturer in Information Systems at Nottingham University Business School
- John Duffy, Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh
- Steve Atlas, economics graduate student at Tufts University

Monday’s show will include:

- Introduction to the field of experimental economics
- Explanation of motivation of and results from recent experiments conducted by Chesney and myself in Second Life
- Discussion of challenges and opportunities of experimental research in virtual worlds.
- Possibilities for macroeconomic research leveraging virtual worlds.

Metanomics Special Session: Charles Nesson

When: Monday, April 7 at 2:00pm PST (check local time)
Where: Amphitheater on Outreach (87, 125, 34) (no group membership is required to teleport)

Charles Nesson a Harvard law professor known for teaching trial law in Second Life, will be giving a lecture in Second Life on the future of the university.

See - CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion

You will want to join the Metanomics group in SL so you can participate in the group IM that goes on during the live sessions.

For past events, see the Metanomics video archive from SLCN.tv.