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The boundaries of what constitutes a market and what does not are relevant distinctions to make in economic analysis. In a general equilibrium context, a good is a specific concept including geographical and time-related characteristics. Most studies of market structure relax a little their definition of a good, allowing for more flexibility in the identification of substitute goods. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 10-Q Quarterly Report for Hasbro, filed November 15, 1995. A launch date of October 25, 1995 for Hasbro Interactive is given in the report. Product differentiation: There is no product differentiation in a perfectly competitive market. Every product is perfectly homogeneous and a perfect substitute for any other. With a monopoly, there is great to absolute product differentiation in the sense that there is no available substitute for a monopolized good. The monopolist is the sole supplier of the good in question. [19] A customer either buys from the monopolizing entity on its terms or does without. The most significant distinction between a PC company and a monopoly is that the monopoly has a downward-sloping demand curve rather than the "perceived" perfectly elastic curve of the PC company. [29] Practically all the variations mentioned above relate to this fact. If there is a downward-sloping demand curve then by necessity there is a distinct marginal revenue curve. The implications of this fact are best made manifest with a linear demand curve. Assume that the inverse demand curve is of the form x = a − b y {\displaystyle x=a-by} . Then the total revenue curve is TR = a y − b y 2 {\displaystyle {\text{TR}}=ay-by Orbanes, Philip (1999). The Monopoly Companion: The Players Guide (Seconded.). Adams Media Corporation. p. 16. ISBN 1-58062-175-9.

Waddingtons later produced special games during World War II which secretly contained files, a compass, a map printed on silk, and real currency hidden amongst the Monopoly money, to enable prisoners of war to escape from German camps. [94] [95] However, this story has come under recent scrutiny and is being disputed. [96] Truitt, Brian (8 January 2013). "Token change for Monopoly to replace an iconic piece". USA Today . Retrieved 9 January 2013.

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In addition to barriers to entry and competition, barriers to exit may be a source of market power. Barriers to exit are market conditions that make it difficult or expensive for a company to end its involvement with a market. High liquidation costs are a primary barrier to exiting. [15] Market exit and shutdown are sometimes separate events. The decision whether to shut down or operate is not affected by exit barriers. [ citation needed] A company will shut down if price falls below minimum average variable costs. Find sources: "Monopoly"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Kennedy, Rod Jr. (2004). Monopoly: The Story Behind the World's Best-Selling Game (Firsted.). Gibbs Smith. p.11. ISBN 1-58685-322-8. Barriers to entry: Barriers to entry are factors and circumstances that prevent entry into market by would-be competitors and limit new companies from operating and expanding within the market. PC markets have free entry and exit. There are no barriers to entry, or exit competition. Monopolies have relatively high barriers to entry. The barriers must be strong enough to prevent or discourage any potential competitor from entering the market P-Max quantity, price and profit: If a monopolist obtains control of a formerly perfectly competitive industry, the monopolist would increase prices, reduce production, incur deadweight loss, and realise positive economic profits. [24]Under the Boardwalk, LLC. "Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story – 2015 Monopoly Championship Info". a b c d e f g h i j "From Berks to Boardwalk" originally published in the Winter 1978 Historical Review of Berks County. While monopoly and perfect competition mark the extremes of market structures [16] there is some similarity. The cost functions are the same. [17] Both monopolies and perfectly competitive (PC) companies minimize cost and maximize profit. The shutdown decisions are the same. Both are assumed to have perfectly competitive factors markets. There are distinctions, some of the most important distinctions are as follows: In 1903, Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea, and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate. She was granted the patent for the game in January 1904. The Landlord's Game became one of the first board games to use a "continuous path", without clearly defined start and end spaces on its board. [15] [16] Another innovation in gameplay attributed to Magie is the concept of "ownership" of a place on a game board, such that something would happen to the second (or later) player to land on the same space, without the first player's piece still being present. [16] A copy of Magie's game that she had left at the Georgist community of Arden, Delaware and dating from 1903–1904, was presented for the PBS series History Detectives. [17] This copy featured property groups, organized by letters, later a major feature of Monopoly as published by Parker Brothers. [18] [19]

Moore, Tim (2002). Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair. Vintage UK, division of Random House. p.4. ISBN 0-09-943386-9. TIME magazine, "Sport: 1937 Games", February 1, 1937, p. 44. Parker Brothers' marketing 1940s–1960s [ edit ] In December 1979, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Professor Anspach, with an opinion that agreed with the facts about the game's history and differed from Parker Brothers' "official" account. [220] The court also upheld a "purchasing motivation" test (described in the decision as a "Genericness Doctrine"), a "test by which the trademark was valid only if consumers, when they asked for a Monopoly game, meant that they wanted Parker Brothers' version...". [220] [221] This had the effect of potentially nullifying the Monopoly trademark, and the court returned the case to Judge Williams. [220] Williams heard the case again in 1980, and in 1981 he again held for Parker Brothers. [222] [223] Anspach appealed again, and in August 1982 the appeals court again reversed. [224] [225] The case was then appealed by General Mills/Parker Brothers to the United States Supreme Court, which decided not to hear the case in February 1983, and denied a petition for rehearing in April. [226] This allowed the appeals court's decision to stand and further allowed Anspach to resume publication of his game. [227] [228]After the Thuns learned the game, they began teaching its rules to their fraternity brothers at Williams College around 1926. [28] Daniel W. Layman, in turn, learned the game from the Thun brothers (who later tried to sell copies of the game commercially, but were advised by an attorney that the game could not be patented, as they were not its inventors). [28] [38] Layman later returned to his hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana, and began playing the game with friends there, ultimately producing hand-made versions of the board based on streets of that city. [30] Layman then commercially produced and sold the game, starting in 1932, with a friend in Indianapolis, who owned a company called Electronic Laboratories. [39] This game was sold under the name The Fascinating Game of Finance (later shortened to Finance). [40] Layman soon sold his rights to the game, which was then licensed, produced and marketed by Knapp Electric. [41] The published board featured four railroads (one per side), Chance and Community Chest cards and spaces, and properties grouped by symbol, rather than color. [42] [43] [44] Also in 1932, one edition of The Landlord's Game was published by the Adgame Company with a new set of rules called Prosperity, also by Magie. [45] a b "Monopoly – History & Fun Facts". Hasbro. Archived from the original on June 14, 2012 . Retrieved 4 March 2013. Hinebaugh, Jeffrey P. (2009). A Board Game Education: Building Skills for Academic Success. Rowman & Littlefield Education. p.72. ISBN 978-1-60709-260-5. a b c d Pilon, Mary (October 20, 2009). "How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life". Wall Street Journal . Retrieved May 28, 2013. Pilon, Mary (February 13, 2015). "Monopoly's Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn't Pass 'Go' ". New York Times . Retrieved February 14, 2015.

Profit maximizer: monopolists will choose the price or output to maximise profits at where MC=MR.This output will be somewhere over the price range, where demand is price elastic. If the total revenue is higher than total costs, the monopolists will make abnormal profits. Wolfe, Burton (1976). "The Monopolization of Monopoly: Parker Brothers". The San Francisco Bay Guardian . Retrieved 4 June 2013.

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Wenzel, Sebastian (April 2013). "Monopoly". In Geithner, Michael; Thiele, Martin (eds.). Nachgemacht: Spielekopien aus der DDR. DDR Museum Verlag. p.32. ISBN 978-3-939801-18-4. Within Spain, classic editions of Monopoly were released by ‘Borras’ until Hasbro took over production permanently in 1996. Variants such as Junior, European & Playmaster were released during this period without Borras involvement. a b Ketcham, Christopher (19 October 2012). "Monopoly is Theft". The Stream. Harper's Magazine . Retrieved 28 May 2013. Find sources: "Monopoly"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)