Kevin Lacobie cofounded Agoric Enterprises, Inc. in Fairfax, Virginia, in 1991, and Agorics Inc., Los Altos California, in 1994. The former company concentrated on economic consulting in the software industry; one report, Software Components, was published by the Patricia Seybold Group. One research product, TheAgora, is a economics simulation environment, for studying such phenomena as the emergence of money from a barter economy. The Agora is written in Smalltalk. Agorics Inc. is currently developing market-based distributed computing systems. ---- Kevin is currently running Agoric Source, LLC, ( www.agoric.com ) in Houston. ---- CategoryHomePage