How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life (2009)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125599860004295449

by ganeumann • 11 years ago

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nfriedly• 11 years ago

My family has a copy of anti-monopoly, it's a fun game.

Here's some basic info: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1931/anti-monopoly

Apofis• 11 years ago

Kind of ironic.

mullingitover• 11 years ago

Wow, Hasbro was remarkably petty: > Meanwhile, Parker Brothers filed for, and won, a court order to "deliver up for destruction" 37,000 copies of the board game from Prof. Anspach's warehouse. Parker Brothers, he says, buried the games near a rural Minnesota landfill. "It was depressing," says Prof. Anspach.

The spokeswoman for Hasbro said that these events were many years ago, and that she can't verify the games' fate. "If Parker Brothers did indeed destroy the games, it was pursuant to the court's explicit order," she said in an email response.

After they asked for and received permission to destroy his inventory, they try to push the blame for their actions back on the court. Classy.

Udo_Schmitz• 11 years ago

Also recommended: "Monopoly Is Theft" from 2012 by Christopher Ketcham

http://harpers.org/blog/2012/10/monopoly-is-theft/

How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life (2009)

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