Salem holds the distinction of being “The game capital of the world,” thanks to the Parker Brothers’ legacy. It’s that legacy that prompted us to briefly mention, in last week’s column, the ...

Tonka Corp. wants a monopoly on Monopoly. Parker Brothers, a division of Tonka that makes the game Monopoly, has filed a lawsuit charging trademark infringement against a California company that ...

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 ...

Now part of the Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...