Cooperation: The Wealth of Nations Game

You can order the board game by email for $30 plus $10 shipping.  Or you can download the Barter computer version from here free. 

The computer version allows you to select a random game board, with varying terrain.  The board game is players sitting around a table, looking at each other, talking with each other, more a group experience than the computer game.  The computer game is good for practicing the game between group games.  The best option is to buy the board game and the computer game.

· Better than Monopoly because you learn how everybody can win, not just one player.

· You learn by experience.

· You can play alone or with others.  Expect to do better with more players.  After all, it is called cooperation.

· It’s fun at school, or at home.  Imagine homework as a game.

· Tested in classroom use for more than 30 years.

· I love it!  Of course, I invented it, with my friend Bob Gill.  We started in 1975. 

It’s more than a game.  You play by different rules to see how they work.   You have heard about them; this is your chance to play and compare them.

Barter: the beginners’ game.

Majority Rule: the socialist game.

Making Money: the capitalist game.

Autonomy: the winning game. 

Autonomy combines the strengths of barter, socialism, and capitalism and avoids their weaknesses.  Everyone can win with Autonomy.

In fact, it takes everyone to win the most.

You put cities on the game board to achieve the most wealth with the least work.  That means getting food, fiber, wood, metal, and energy for your cities with the least amount of work — the most wealth with the most free time.  Your people produce resources and trade extras with other players, provided you build transportation between cities.

By chance, your cities start as Primitive, Pioneer, or Privileged, but you can educate them.

Students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville playing Cooperation.

To contact us:

Phone:1- 618-656-5706

E-mail: rblain@charter.net

Cooperation

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Cooperation

P.O. Box 644

Edwardsville, Illinois 62025