{"id":24029,"date":"2017-03-02T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24029"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:15:58","slug":"understanding-modern-money-by-playing-a-game-of-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/02\/understanding-modern-money-by-playing-a-game-of-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Modern Money By Playing a Game of Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Economic Perspectives<\/em> has the May 17, 2012 article <a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2012\/05\/playing-monopolis-monopoly-an-inquiry-into-why-we-are-making-ourselves-so-miserable.html\" target=\"_blank\">Playing Monopolis Monopoly: An inquiry into why we are making ourselves so miserable<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t let the word Monopolis throw you.  This is just mostly regular Monopoly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:150%;\">If you have ever played or think you can learn to play the children&#8217;s board game of Monopoly, then you can understand this explanation of Modern Money Theory.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me to learn that the inventors of this game had in mind exactly this goal of teaching.  (So look this idea up on <em>Google<\/em> and find the <em>WikiPedia<\/em> article <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly\" target=\"_blank\">History of the board game Monopoly<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Economic Perspectives has the May 17, 2012 article Playing Monopolis Monopoly: An inquiry into why we are making ourselves so miserable. Don&#8217;t let the word Monopolis throw you. This is just mostly regular Monopoly. If you have ever played or think you can learn to play the children&#8217;s board game of Monopoly, then you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24030,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029\/revisions\/24030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}