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Hat tip to Kottke.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on May 23, 2008 at 11:10 AM in Economics | Permalink
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This is fantastic. Not only is it cool that Hasbro/Parker Bros have made replacement pieces available for their game, it's also neat that now you can experiment with monetary inflation within the context of Monopoly.
Interestingly, I actually think that in Monopoly this would increase player freedom.
I envision a game where the "government" rewards and penalties are rigid, yet increasingly meaningless with each new monetary injection. Suddenly Chance and Community chest (and passing go) are only doling out or fining the equivalent of pennies, while the game's only real resource (land) skyrockets in value.
Posted by: d.cous. at May 23, 2008 11:54:01 AM
NB: By "value" I really just mean "price."
Posted by: d.cous. at May 23, 2008 11:55:14 AM
Doesn't Go already have an inflationary effect? Of course, if you got $20,000 for passing Go, things would change mighty quickly.
Posted by: Patrick at May 23, 2008 12:28:14 PM
Monopoly is really a poor simulation of any sort of economy. Settlers of Catan ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlers_of_Catan ), is a much better economic simulation (and a much better game).
Posted by: Rex Rhino at May 23, 2008 12:29:06 PM
That's why you get the monopoly game with the credit cards ;)
Posted by: Robert Olson at May 23, 2008 12:49:18 PM
Having played many board games in my day, "Settlers" is much better. much better. It incorporates a bidding system, whereby the prices of resources are correlated with their supply. Of course, as with most games, there is an element of randomness, i.e. the dice roll. I prefer "Puerto Rico", a game that is fun and complex, even if there is no bartering. But this is an economics blog and I am turning it into a board gaming blog, so I will stop now.
Posted by: Justin at May 23, 2008 3:26:43 PM
board games? dice? these things sound familiar...
Posted by: shawn at May 23, 2008 4:03:50 PM
LOL, brilliant! ;-)
Posted by: Speedmaster at May 23, 2008 4:13:10 PM
As mentioned once before here at MR, you can also play the "anti-monopoly" (or rather pro-monopoly, state style) game, Class Struggle.
I grew up on that game, it was sold out of my apartment. It, despite accusations otherwise by the above blogger, is very fun to play.
Posted by: liberty at May 23, 2008 10:04:21 PM
I have actually used this site to print money to use in classroom experiments - I find it helps a lot with the first experiment of the semester to have tangible things in their hands.
Posted by: David Tufte at May 24, 2008 10:15:03 PM
In the 80s I was in a libertarian book circle/gun club/etc in Colorado. We used monopoly money as a convenient way of issuing personal currency.
Sign the back of a monopoly $1 bill, and it is your iou to the world.
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