In 1904, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie designed a board game to demonstrate the tragic effects of land-grabbing. In this game, oligarchs enrich themselves at the expense of tenants, the latter of whom only ...

Atlantic City inspired the original Monopoly board—but can you still afford Baltic or Boardwalk today? We tracked real ...

I know, I know. How much more is there to discuss about Monopoly, the classic, down-home American board game that launched a thousand grudges? Well, I hope there’s at least an article’s worth, because ...

This was patented by Elizabeth (Lizzie) Magie, a left-wing fan of economist Henry George, in 1904. Though Charles Darrow was the first to sell the rights to the popularised game in the ’30s, ...

Now part of the Hasbro, Inc. HAS portfolio, the “Monopoly” board game is licensed in more than 103 countries, runs in more than 37 languages and exists in dozens of editions. It’s birthed an entire ...

Ralph Anspach wasn't going to stop making his Anti-Monopoly game just because Parker Brothers told him to. At least not without a fight. It was 1974 and Anspach, an economics professor at San ...

To Lizzie Magie, a 30-something single woman working as a stenographer in Washington at the turn of the century, the monopolists who controlled banks, railroads and oil fields seemed almost impossible ...

Atlantic City inspired the original Monopoly board—but can you still afford Baltic or Boardwalk today? We tracked real ...

In the early 1900s, a progressive economist named Henry George advocated the “single tax,” based on his belief that “individuals should own 100% of what they made or created but that everything found ...

The Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America's broken education system. One, an executive order by President Donald Trump, issued shortly after ...