Economics and Strategy Games
Games involving scarce resources and strategy.
- Acquire
- Junta
- Kolejka
- København
- Monopoly
- Power Grid
- Risk
- Risk 2210 AD
- The Settlers of Catan
- Ticket to Ride
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“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
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—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
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