One a the most fascinating 'n enduring things about EVE Online be the depth a it be economics. The player-driven economy has got a full decade a history behind it, operating on it be own strange breed a anarcho-capitalism. In Free Market economics, there be an idea called the ‘invisible hand’. This be the idea that the marketplace ultimately regulates itself, whether it wants t' or not. But in EVE’s case, there be two such invisible hands. One guided by the players 'n the other hand – one which players barely ever notice – guided by CCP’s in-house economist, Dr Eyjólfur Guðmundsson (or Eyjó for short). (more…)