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 ...

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 ...

A young woman by the name of Elizabeth Magie created the game as a “practical demonstration of the present system of land-grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences.” Her inspiration was a ...

SALEM (CBS) -- When everyone is ripping and tearing those presents under the Christmas tree, chances are some of those toys were made right here in New England. Transformers. Nerf. G.I. Joe, Monopoly, ...

In 1935, a man named Charles Darrow removed the game’s socialist critique (the version that taxed land), renamed it Monopoly and sold it to Parker Brothers. The game was now focused on the ...

Mr. Monopoly himself made an appearance in downtown Salt Lake City on Wednesday afternoon to announce a new special edition of the classic board game based on Utah’s capital that is to be released ...

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 ...