The Syndicate

Keterman wrote:I hope my participation in this could make up for missing out on the Occult Mafia. Biggest mafia regret is forgetting that was going on, I love the occult, and I was the freaking rogue.

I'm really sorry I replaced you in that one, but you were new to the site and I didn't know you, or whether you ever planned to come back. Now that you've become such an active and helpful player, next time I'll know better!

Roles:

Adam Smith - Invisible hand - Can direct action from behind the scenes (takes another player's power nightly)


Jean-Babtiste Say - Supply creates its own demand - May sell anything to anyone once per Bust


Carl Menger - Founder of the Austrian School/Marginal revolution - knows that every little bit helps, and has an extra vote for just that reason


Ludwig von Mises - Human Action - holds highly-attended lectures nightly (BTSC with one player per Bust)


F. A. Hayek - Competing currencies - Makes his own currency, and yours doesn't count


Joseph Schumpeter - Creative destruction - Can destroy an item in his possession to get something better


John Nash - Game Theory - Make two players play a game of your choosing each night


James Buchanan - Public Choice/Club Goods - can exclude a player from using a certain item each Bust


Vilfredo Pareto - Pareto efficiency - Prevent target player from being made worse off at night


Paul Samuelson - Public Goods - Can share the use of another player’s item


Ronald Coase - Coasian bargaining/Property Rights - May not be stolen from/share his items


Milton Friedman - Monetarism - Can alter the money supply


Murray Rothbard - Enemy of the state - Prevent redistributive actions


Arthur Pigou - externalities - His votes also spill over onto other players


George Akerlof - asymmetric information - Role check

Mafia:

John Maynard Keynes - In the long run, we’re all dead - Kills nightly


Karl Marx - Dictatorship of the proletariat - Destroy items (Kapital)


David Ricardo - Ricardian equivalence - Prevents tax cuts


Robert Solow - Convergence/growth theory - uses technology to improve his items

Serial Killer:

Thomas Malthus - Malthusian population model - Keeps the population under control by killing

Items:
Guns
Butter
Currency

Events:
Booms
Busts
Taxes