Author : Rod Kennedy
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781586853228
The author chronicles the history of the world's most popular board game,racing the origins of each "property" within Atlantic City, New Jersey,hile recalling the evolution of the game. Original.
Author : Philip Orbanes
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402754067
This work is a fun-packed guide to the history, rules, and winning strategies behind the worlds most popular board game, by the man known as Mr. Monopoly.
Author : Milind M. Lele
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749449650
Conventional wisdom attributes winning to having the best products at the lowest prices, a great brand, superior management and the lowest overhead. This book shows you how to win and hold on to that crucial market segment that can make you rich. It provides a different way to think, take action and stay ahead of the game.
Author : Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0306815923
Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world’s most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century through Monopoly’s explosive growth in the postwar decades, to the game’s current status as a fixture in homes across the globe. Along the way, Orbanes includes memorable Monopoly personality portraits, surprising Monopoly legends and lore, and an extraordinary tour of the ingenious advertising that contributed to the game’s rise in popularity. This is the first and only book to cover comprehensively the origin, growth, and global reach of the game that has become a universal and everyday cultural icon.
Author : Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472901141
In Defense of Monopoly offers an unconventional but empirically grounded argument in favor of market monopolies. Authors McKenzie and Lee claim that conventional, static models exaggerate the harm done by real-world monopolies, and they show why some degree of monopoly presence is necessary to maximize the improvement of human welfare over time. Inspired by Joseph Schumpeter's suggestion that market imperfections can drive an economy's long-term progress, In Defense of Monopoly defies conventional assumptions to show readers why an economic system's failure to efficiently allocate its resources is actually a necessary precondition for maximizing the system's long-term performance: the perfectly fluid, competitive economy idealized by most economists is decidedly inferior to one characterized by market entry and exit restrictions or costs. An economy is not a board game in which players compete for a limited number of properties, nor is it much like the kind of blackboard games that economists use to develop their monopoly models. As McKenzie and Lee demonstrate, the creation of goods and services in the real world requires not only competition but the prospect of gains beyond a normal competitive rate of return.
Author : Maxine Brady
Publisher : Pan
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Monopoly (Game)
ISBN : 9780330261517
Author : Ralph Anspach
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781450092876
Author : Alex Moazed
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250091896
What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather that making things, they simply connect people. The Internet today is awash in platforms - Facebook is responsible for nearly 25 percent of total Web visits, and the Google platform crash in 2013 took about 40 percent of Internet traffic with it. Representing the ten most trafficked sites in the U.S., platforms are also prominent over the globe; in China, they hold the top eight spots in web traffic rankings. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other, melding the digital and physical worlds and blurring distinctions between "offline" and "online." These platform giants are expanding their influence from the digital world to the whole economy. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last ten years. In Modern Monopolies, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the definitive story of what has changed, what it means for businesses today, and how managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners can adapt and thrive in this new era.
Author : Mary Pilon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1620405717
The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily--and richly--ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord's Game more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly. Her game--underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today--was embraced by a constellation of left-wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust. A gripping social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly's real-life winners and losers.
Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250213924
Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and Steven Salerno's Pass Go and Collect $200, a riveting picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games. In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense of justice. Waves of urban migration drew Lizzie’s attention to rising financial inequality. One day she had an idea: create a game that shows the unfairness of the landlord-tenant relationship. But game players seemed to have the most fun pretending to be wealthy landowners. Enter Charles Darrow, a marketer and salesman with a vision for transforming Lizzie’s game into an exciting staple of American family entertainment. Features back matter that includes "Monopoly Math" word problems and equations. Excellent STEM connections and resources. This title has Common Core connections. Christy Ottaviano Books
