Monopoly, it would become one of the most popular board games in the world, with more than 275 million games sold. It also became a symbol of the very sort of aggressive capitalism Magie hoped to ...

Monopoly is the perfect symbol of capitalism — to the extent that the game was banned in East Germany until after the fall of the Berlin Wall, after which Monopoly championships were held in Berlin.

Players with nothing still would have room in the Poor House. ... To a capitalist success A forgotten story Monopoly, inspired by the Landlord’s Game and patented and commercialized by Parker ...

But ironically, affinity and choice in Monopoly token selection undermine part of the history of that game, which juxtaposed capitalist excess ... with a thimble—that symbol of domesticity ...

Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games ... a very different one that promotes a very different image of capitalism. (And with two sets of starkly different rules.) That story shows ...

“Always aim for a monopoly,” says Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist ... “is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time ...

Anspach had created a riff on Darrow’s game called Anti-Monopoly, which critiqued oil cartels and other capitalist monopolies. The game became popular in San Francisco, where Anspach lived ...

Monopoly, the classic board game that originated more than 100 years ago as an anti-capitalist critique of wealth inequality, is getting a fresh coat of paint and some interesting new features.

Listen to Throughline on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Monopoly has been one of the best-selling board games in the United States for nearly a century now. In fact, sales actually went up during the ...