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Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He developed the concept of ‘la longue durée’ – examining history through extended periods to understand deep structural changes. His analysis of the Mediterranean region, particularly...

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist whose extended fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands between 1914 and 1918 helped establish participant observation as a core anthropological method. His functionalist approach analyzed social institutions in terms of their role in meeting human...

Inside Job is a 2010 documentary examining the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. The film details systemic corruption within the U.S. financial services industry, including conflicts impacting academic research. It analyzes policy changes and banking practices that contributed to the crisis’s dev...

Sidney Mintz (1922–2015) was an American anthropologist known for his pioneering work in the anthropology of food and political economy. He conducted extensive fieldwork in the Caribbean, specifically studying the rural communities of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Haiti. Mintz is best known for his 1985...

David Graeber was an American anthropologist and political activist whose work bridged economic anthropology and anarchist political theory. He taught at Yale University and later at the London School of Economics, and was a leading figure in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement, credited with coini...

Concordia is a strategy board game set in the Roman era. Players take on the roles of European monarchs expanding across a newly discovered continent through economic development and strategic conflict. The game’s notable complexity arises from its deck-building mechanics and focus on managing resou...

Mombasa is a strategy board game designed by Alexander Pfister and published in 2015 by Feuerland Spiele. Players take on the roles of investors in European trading companies expanding operations across Africa, competing by placing trading posts on a shared map and managing company stocks whose valu...

Container is an economic board game designed by Franz-Benno Delonge and Thomas Ewert that simulates a highly player-driven logistics market. Participants take on various roles within the supply chain, producing, shipping, storing, and purchasing goods. The game is distinguished by its pure economic...

Automobile is an economic strategy board game designed by Martin Wallace and published in 2009 by Mayfair Games. Players take on the roles of early automobile industrialists in the United States, competing from 1896 through the 1920s by building factories, producing car models at different price tie...

Jamie Peck is a British-Canadian economic geographer and professor at the University of British Columbia. His research examines neoliberalism, labor markets, urban policy, and the ways economic models are adapted across different institutional and geographic settings. He is particularly associated w...

Transport Tycoon is a business simulation game developed for MS-DOS, released in 1994 by MicroProse. The game features an isometric 2D view and allows players to manage a transport company through road, rail, sea, and air networks. Players compete to maximize profit by transporting goods and passeng...

Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King is a tile-laying board game designed by Andreas Pelikan and Alexander Pfister, published in 2015 by Lookout Games. Players assume the roles of Scottish clan chiefs who construct personal territories by purchasing landscape tiles from one another through a player-...

Arkwright is a complex economic board game designed by Stefan Risthaus and published in 2014. Set during the Industrial Revolution, the game casts players as entrepreneurs managing cotton mills in England. Participants must navigate intricate systems involving production, worker management, and fluc...

Michael Storper is an economic geographer whose research examines cities, regional development, industrial organization, and geographic inequality. He has held academic appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles, the London School of Economics, and Sciences Po. His work studies why ec...

Viticulture Essential Edition is a strategy board game centered around managing a vineyard. Players utilize worker placement to cultivate grapes, select wine styles, and optimize their winery production across seasonal rounds. The game’s intricate economic system and strategic depth appeal to those...

Maurice Godelier is a French anthropologist, born in 1934, who combined Marxist theory with ethnographic fieldwork, most extensively among the Baruya people of Papua New Guinea. His major works include *The Making of Great Men* (1982), which examined male initiation, power, and exchange in Baruya so...

This pamphlet excerpts Adam Smith's foundational 1776 economics text "The Wealth of Nations," which famously outlines the principles of free market capitalism and the division of labor.

August Lösch was a German economist whose work examined how economic activity is distributed across geographic space. In The Economics of Location, first published in German in 1940, he developed a general theory of market areas, industrial location, and spatial economic organization that extended d...

18Chesapeake is a board game designed by Scott Petersen that serves as an accessible introduction to the complex 18xx series, featuring stock trading and railway network building.

This pamphlet excerpts Karl Marx's foundational 1867 critical analysis of capitalism, "Das Kapital," which profoundly shaped socialist economic theory and international labor movements.

Power Grid is an economic strategy board game centered around building and operating an electricity network. Players bid on power plants and connect them to cities across a North American map to satisfy growing energy demands. The game’s notable complexity arises from fluctuating resource prices and...

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) represents a significant period in Chinese history. It was an imperial dynasty marked by substantial economic growth fueled by advancements in agriculture and trade. Notably, this era witnessed crucial inventions like gunpowder and the early development of printing techno...

Originally published in 1923, John Maynard Keynes's "A Tract on Monetary Reform" is a notable economic work advocating for active government management of currency to ensure stability.

Allen J. Scott is a British-born American economic geographer whose research examines industrial organization, urban development, and the geographic concentration of economic activity. He is particularly associated with studies of new industrial districts and the cultural economy, including film, me...

Brass: Lancashire is a tabletop strategy game set during the industrial revolution in England. Players compete to develop industries like cotton mills and coal mines while constructing a network of canals for efficient trade. The game’s complexity lies in its economic engine building and strategic r...

Railroad Tycoon 3 is a strategy simulation game developed and released in 2003 as part of the Railroad Tycoon franchise. The game focuses on managing a railroad network through economic challenges and strategic decisions. It allows players to build and operate a railway system within a defined histo...

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is an economic geographer based at the National University of Singapore. His research examines globalization, Asian firms, regional development, and the organization of global production networks, with particular attention to East and Southeast Asia. He has studied how states,...

Keith Hart is a British economic anthropologist known for his extensive research on the social and economic structures of urban Africa. He first coined the term "informal economy" in a 1973 study examining the unregulated labor markets and grassroots economic activities of migrants in Accra, Ghana....

B. R. Ambedkar's 1923 economic study traces India's currency instability and proposes monetary reforms that influenced debate preceding the Reserve Bank of India.