Echoes Dispatches From Economic History Playing cards from
Norman Angell's "The Money Game." Source: Baker Old Class
Collection, Harvard Business School How Depression-Era Children
Learned About Money: Echoes For those who remember anything they
learned of economics in high school -- kudos. As for the rest of
us who would have much rather spent frivolously what little
money we had instead of learning how to make it grow, perhaps
the method used to teach us about money was uninspired or even,
as Sir Norman Angell would suggest, outmoded. Angell, a British
economist, Nobel laureate and prolific writer, was also the
designer of something called "The Money Game" -- a visual method
of teaching schoolchildren the fundamentals of finance and
banking. First published in 1928 by J. M. Dent & Sons, "The
Money Game, How to Play It: A New Instrument of Economic
Education" was both a book and a game. Although the bulk of the
book is an essay on money and a discussion of economic theory,
players can easily skip to a summar