The recent announcement that Hasbro would be conducting an online vote to decide which “house rules” to officially incorporate into Monopoly ... they tell us about economics.

Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign dented his finances, sent him on a nationwide ...

She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues and has also revised and edited educational materials for the Greater Richmond area. A monopoly is a market structure with a ...

According to general equilibrium economics, a free market is an efficient way to distribute goods and services, while a monopoly is inefficient. The inefficient distribution of goods and services ...

I'm realizing our monopoly game segment on yesterday's podcast didn't really go far enough. Check out Jon Methven's essay in McSweeney's, The Economic Crisis Hits the Markson Family Monopoly Board ...

The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances. Read Full Article » ...

Yes, the economics nerds were proposing a co-operative, pedagogical version of Monopoly. Alas their vision was eclipsed by the ruthless battle of attrition we all know today. Our own session of ...