Floating Markets

David desJardins (desj@ccr-p.ida.org)
Thu, 25 Aug 94 11:36:34 EDT

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> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 08:22:48 -0700
> From: Scott Turner <srt@sun-dimas.aero.org>
>
> The idea here is that if a city is offering something for sale at a
> particular price and isn't selling any, the price will get marked
> down. If it is offering something for sale and is selling it, the
> price will get marked up. Buying works just the opposite.

In concept this is great. However it's *very* hard to make markets that
behave well and can't be manipulated to do very bad and unbalancing
things. Just look at many failed economic games, like Supremacy, to see
that.

David desJardins

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