Okay, yes, diff’rent streaks for diff’rent freaks and all that, but — without meaning any offense — I’ve got to admit that an all-economists Dungeons and Dragons game just might rank fairly high in my personal descriptions of hell. 
Is it really financially prudent to go after this troll?
What’s the expected profit-to-loss ratio if we attempt to capture the dragon’s hoard?
Does our raiding party’s net worth really justify attacking in this instance?
Disclaimer: I am neither an economist nor a D&D player, so I have no real personal experience to draw upon for this — though while my exposure to economists is nearly nonexistent, I’ve known, been around, and lived with enough D&D players to know how wacky they can get on their own — I just thought that the combination of the two was simultaneously amusing and frightening. Please take this post as the good-natured ribbing that it’s meant to be.
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Some of the players in my D&D campaign wanted to melt down a gold statue to make gold coins, which prompted a discussion of commodity verus political money.
That has to be one the the funniest things I’ve read in a while!!!
You know me and I dropped out of an econ masters program. Long story but it was a matter of knowing that taking on MORE students loans was not maximizing my utility among the choices presented.
And that’s one of the rudimentary definitions of econ - “maximizing etc etc.” How you go about that as some furry footed thing-a-ma-jig is then the question.