tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186411787977962731.post4423972171761407922..comments2023-10-01T15:19:46.052+01:00Comments on Nagora's Corner: EconomicsNagorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805769538648631984noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186411787977962731.post-69112072423095103742012-12-02T11:38:34.949+00:002012-12-02T11:38:34.949+00:00I could have written twice as much, which would ha...I could have written twice as much, which would have filled in some of the jumps, but in the end my main D&D-related point was that constructing a realistic price list of mediaeval items is incredibly hard even for historians and all it gets you even then is a list of prices for a world that you're probably not playing in.<br /><br />The broader idea was that there is an absolute scale of wealth, a sort of kelvins for cash, in the form of calories/work and that perhaps thinking about that would give us all some useful perspective on what our governments are doing, why they are doing it, and what would happen if they didn't do it.<br /><br />With the US poised to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer in the next few years, there are implications for geo-politics that I think are quite interesting and certainly have the potential to affect us all.<br /><br />And, in your case, of course, the desire to have a nuclear source of power/wealth has impacted your wife's family in Japan very directly indeed. Understanding what that power is buying may, I hope, help explain why a government (or population) might want to continue paying the price as well as give a framework in which to think about what an alternative source needs to supply or what people may have to trade-off if no exact replacement can be found and they don't want to keep paying the price for nuclear (or coal, or whatever).Nagorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10805769538648631984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186411787977962731.post-24448235090407031932012-12-02T06:38:58.324+00:002012-12-02T06:38:58.324+00:00Hoo. Well, we have been around the block with rega...Hoo. Well, we have been around the block with regard to this a few times, but I largely agree with your conclusion (unsurprisingly). The game should have as consistent an economy as is plausible without creating a lot of unnecessary work. Whilst historical verisimilitude is desirable, historical accuracy can largely be safely dispensed with as something to strive towards for its own sake.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05646247954542936623noreply@blogger.com