> Question: Any other games use economic insights to make playing
> and spectating more fun?
> -fabio
Poker uses two insights:
1. Rent. There are higher and lower valued cards, so a hand (set of
cards) acquires a rent, paid by betting.
2. Entrepreneurship. One can win not just by having a highest-valued hand
but also by bluffing, making others believe that one has it. The
card-player as enterpreneur is successful if he knows the market, i.e. the
playing styles of the others and the likely supplies (hands) and demands
(likely bets).
Fred Foldvary
