Name/Title
Game, BoardEntry/Object ID
2006.053.002Description
Anti-Monopoly board game. Cardboard box with board, tokens, instructions, paper money and cards. Box shows "Copyright 1973 Ralph Anspatch, Anti-Monopoly Inc., PO Box 2427, San Rafael, California, 94902, (415) 456-6545"
Ralph Anspach (born 1926) lived in Berkeley and got his PH.D. in economics at UC. He was a professor of economics at SFSU retired in 2004. He created Anti-Monopoly (1973) in part as a response to the lessons taught by the mainstream game, which he believed created the impression that monopolies were something desirable. His intent was to demonstrate how harmful monopolies could be to a free-enterprise system, and how antitrust laws work to curtail them in the real world. Parker Brothers claimed trademark infringment and after years of difficult litigation, settled with Anspach in 1979.Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Game, BoardNomenclature Primary Object Term
GameNomenclature Class
Game EquipmentNomenclature Category
Category 09: Recreational ObjectsDimensions
Width
21 inDepth
1-1/2 inLength
11 inDimension Notes
dimensions of box
