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Monopoly [the game] Was Invented to Reveal the Toxic Greed of Capitalism — Kate Raworth

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In addition to confronting gender politics, Magie decided to take on the capitalist system of property ownership – this time not through a publicity stunt but in the form of a board game. The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her. In the pages of Henry George’s classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that ‘the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air – it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence’....EvonomicsMonopoly Was Invented to Reveal the Toxic Greed of CapitalismKate Raworth | senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for

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In addition to confronting gender politics, Magie decided to take on the capitalist system of property ownership – this time not through a publicity stunt but in the form of a board game. The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her. In the pages of Henry George’s classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that ‘the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air – it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence’....
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Monopoly Was Invented to Reveal the Toxic Greed of Capitalism
Kate Raworth | senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and author of Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist
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