Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane · 28 Feb 2017 · 346pp · 90,371 words
, 204–5 land-credit feedback cycle, 8, 114–19, 190–1, 222 landlords: taxation, 85; see also buy-to-let (BTL); private rented sector ‘The Landlord’s Game’, 47 landownership: benefits of public ownership, 193–6; and economic rent, 10–13; ‘high income-elasticity of demand’, 9; and inequality, 26–7; land pooling
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson · 13 Nov 2007 · 471pp · 124,585 words
the iniquity of a social system in which a small minority of landlords profited from the rents they collected from tenants. Originally known as The Landlord’s Game, this proto-Monopoly had a number of familiar features - the continuous rectangular path, the Go to Jail corner - but it appeared too complex and didactic
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. Soon he was selling more than he could make by himself. In 1935 the board-games company Parker Brothers (which had passed on the earlier Landlord’s Game) bought him out.1 The Great Depression might have seemed an unpropitious time to launch what had by now mutated into a game for would
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as unit of value 18-19 unskilled and semi-skilled 14 Labour party 251-2 Lackey, Judge 181-2n. Lamarckian evolution 351 Lamont, Norman 318 Landlord’s Game 230-31 landlords, negative views of 230 Lasswell, Harold D. 207 Latin America: aid to 307 British investment in 293 debt crises and currency depreciations
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
by Eric Posner and E. Weyl · 14 May 2018 · 463pp · 105,197 words
tax. George’s proposals quickly captured the public imagination (see figure 1.1). Monopoly, perhaps the most popular board game ever, was originally titled The Landlord’s Game. Elizabeth Magie designed it in 1904 as a way to educate the public about George’s ideas. According to the rules we are now familiar
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by Kate Raworth · 22 Mar 2017 · 403pp · 111,119 words
reap vast rents from their fellow players, thus accumulating a winning fortune as they bankrupt the rest. Fascinatingly, however, the game was originally called ‘The Landlord’s Game’ and was designed precisely to reveal the injustice arising out of such concentrated property ownership, not to celebrate it. The game’s inventor Elizabeth Magie
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it contains all the elements of success and failure in the real world.’ But when the games manufacturer Parker Brothers bought the patent for The Landlord’s Game from Magie in the 1930s, they relaunched it simply as Monopoly, and provided the eager public with just one set of rules: those that celebrate
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, George, 23, 38, 276 Lamelara, Indonesia, 105–6 land conversion, 49, 52, 299 land ownership, 178–82 land-value tax, 73, 149, 180 Landesa, 178 Landlord’s Game, The, 149 law of demand, 16 laws of motion, 13, 16–17, 34, 129, 131 Lehman Brothers, 141 Leopold, Aldo, 115 Lesotho, 118, 199 leverage
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 words
; their descendants in the twenty-first century may draw on the same tools to conjure up other feelings: empathy, companionship, even love. 5 Games The Landlord’s Game In the second half of the thirteenth century, a Dominican friar from the Lombard region of modern-day Italy began delivering a series of sermons
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tax reform might make compelling subject matter for a board game. Magie began sketching the outlines of a game she would come to call the Landlord’s Game. In 1904, she published a brief outline of the game in a Georgist journal called Land and Freedom. Her description would be immediately familiar to
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neither for rent nor for sale—and on each of these appear the forbidding sign: “No Trespassing. Go to Jail.” The playing board for The Landlord’s Game, Monopoly’s predecessor Magie had created the primordial Monopoly, a pastime that would eventually be packaged into the most lucrative board game of the modern
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socialist.) Either way you played it, however, the agenda was the same: teaching children how modern capitalism worked, warts and all. In its way, The Landlord’s Game was every bit as moralizing as the Mansion of Happiness. “The little landlords take a general delight in demanding the payment of their rent,” Magie
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injustice of our present land system and when they grow up, if they are allowed to develop naturally, the evil will soon be remedied. The Landlord’s Game never became a mass hit, but over the years it developed an underground following. It circulated, samizdat-style, through a number of communities, with individually
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on starting with the 1991 edition of Monopoly: “It all started back in 1933 when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania was inspired by The Landlord’s Game to create a new diversion to entertain himself while he was unemployed.” Pilon, Kindle locations 3501–3510. “Like the Bible”: Shenk, Kindle locations 329–335
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Capitalism (Braudel), 39–40 Civil War, 34 class differences broken down by the emerging fashion industry, 38–40 distribution of wealth as shown in the Landlord’s Game, 196–98 exhibitions as great levelers, 157 public spaces as an equalizer, 246, 258–59 as shown in the game of chess, 188–90 Claude
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, 221–22 Checkered Game of Life, 195 chess, 188–94, 191, 200–203 effect on civilization, 192 everyday metaphors taken from, 192 Jeopardy! 228–31 Landlord’s Game, 196–98, 197 Mansion of Happiness, 194–95 Minecraft, 201 Monopoly, 196–99 as moral instruction, 194–95, 197 played around the world, 200–203
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–200 Minecraft, 201 Mithridates VI (king), 135 Monopoly Charles Darrow, 198–99 false history of, 198–99 Landlord’s Game, 196–98, 197 Lizzie Magie, 195–99 Parker Brothers, 199 tax reform, as outlined in the Landlord’s Game, 195–96, 197 Mont Blanc, 262–64 Morse, Samuel, 91 movies. See cinema Mumford, Lewis, 50 Murch
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, 255–57 Smith, Albert, 266 Smith, Edward E., 216 social order class differences challenged by fashion, 39–40 distribution of wealth as shown in the Landlord’s Game, 196–98 exhibitions enjoyed by all ranks, 157 public spaces as an equalizer, 246, 258–59 as shown in the game of chess, 188–92
Having and Being Had
by Eula Biss · 15 Jan 2020 · 199pp · 61,648 words
? Slumming Commercial Understanding The Right White Not Consumers Living Things Consumers Husbandry The Neighborhood Get Off My Lawn Thanksgiving Capitalism Comforter Affluence Moral Monday The Landlord’s Game Capitalism Pokémon The Piano Art Work Anything Passing Membership Art Poor Rich Work Leisure The Protestant Ethic Work Capitalism Liberation Collection Work Drag The Witch
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wealth,” she writes. We shouldn’t ask our rich to be good, in other words, we should ask our economic system to be better. THE LANDLORD’S GAME I’ve been playing Monopoly with J every evening for a week and I haven’t won a single game. J plays with abandon, buys
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number of doubles, so I accuse him of cheating. He’s not cheating, he explains to me happily, he’s just a lucky person. The Landlord’s Game, the game that became Monopoly, was designed in the early 1900s to expose the problems with an economic system in which property owners “win” by
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was entitled to profit from their labor, but that profits made from the ownership of property should be heavily taxed. The woman who invented the Landlord’s Game, Elizabeth Magie, was an advocate of that tax. As an unmarried woman with her own home, rare at the time, she struggled to support herself
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slavery was not like marriage, but because she was suggesting that marriage, like slavery, was an economic institution. In Magie’s original version of the Landlord’s Game, players earned money by completing a circuit around the board and passing the square labeled “Labor upon Mother Earth Produces Wages,” which is now simply
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of the National Academy of Sciences, March 13, 2012. “What the Rich Won’t Tell You,” Rachel Sherman. New York Times, September 8, 2017. THE LANDLORD’S GAME “The Secret History of Monopoly: The Capitalist Board Game’s Leftwing Origins,” Mary Pilon. The Guardian, April 11, 2015. “For Sale—One Toil-Tired Girl
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
innovation, monopolies have long been opposed both by professional economists and many consumers. The American board game Monopoly traces its roots to 1903, when the Landlord’s Game was invented by Elizabeth Magie to illustrate the problems of concentrating land ownership. The game eventually became quite popular. It was played frequently and earnestly
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy · 10 Nov 2009 · 545pp · 137,789 words
exorbitant rents. Parker Brothers, a unit of Hasbro, has marketed Monopoly since the 1930s, but the game’s origins can be traced back to the Landlord’s Game, which Lizzie Magie, a young Quaker woman from Virginia, invented in 1904 to demonstrate the evils of private land monopolies. Around the turn of the
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, Joseph-Louis Lahart, Justin Laibson, David laissez-faire of Friedman general equilibrium theory and Greenspan and of Hayek middle ground between collectivism and of Mill Landlord’s Game, The Lange, Oskar Lausanne, University of “Law and Economics” school Lay, Kenneth Learned Hand, Billings Leeson, Nick Lehman Brothers collapse of compensation of CEO of
Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 words
unpredictably as the rolls of the die determine who loses resources and who collects them. And this is the point. Monopoly is based on The Landlord’s Game, which was created at the turn of the twentieth century as “a practical demonstration of the present system of land-grabbing with all its usual
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and emotions, rather than resources. Similarly, if we were to imagine a game about philosophical issues that are less economically focused than those in The Landlord’s Game, its playable model would need a foundation other than resources. Which brings us to the question of whether it is possible to make such games
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, 170–171 invisibility, 6, 169, 308–309 and women, 202–203 new types and categories, 39 not headed toward automation, 121–122 Lakhdar, Mohammed, 219 Landlord’s Game, The, 240, 242 Larson, Quincy, 258 Latin America, 79, 91, 96, 104, 300 Latinx, 199, 205, 253, 255, 257, 260, 266 Law for the Protection
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
, however, are nothing like the game we know now where players compete to monopolize the real estate market. In fact, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord’s Game and was the brainchild of writer and inventor Elizabeth Magie, who hoped to use the game to teach the virtues of Georgism, an economic philosophy
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
by William Poundstone · 1 Jan 2010 · 519pp · 104,396 words