Mises Economics Blog » Benjamin Powell http://blog.mises.org Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:16:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 What’s Wrong with Monopoly (the game)? http://blog.mises.org/1560/whats-wrong-with-monopoly-the-game/ http://blog.mises.org/1560/whats-wrong-with-monopoly-the-game/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:07:01 +0000 Benjamin Powell http://blog.mises.org/archives/001560.asp

You have surely played the Parker Brother’s board game Monopoly. It has been published in 26 languages and in 80 countries around the world. Since being introduced in 1935, in fact, an estimated one-half billion people have played it. It has taught the multitudes what they know about how an economy works.

The problem is that the game seriously misrepresents how an actual market economy operates. [MORE]

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