COOPERATION®: The Wealth of Nations Game®

COOPERATION®: The Wealth of Nations Game® is a boardgame for simulating different economic systems. BARTER is the beginners' game, MAJORITY RULE is the socialist game, MAKING MONEY is the capitalist game, and AUTONOMY is the expert tournament game. Playing each game lets players experience the positive and negative aspects of each system.

There are up to six players in a game. Each player manages first 1, then 2, and finally 3 cities of 20,000 people each. The object of a game is to obtain 5 basic resources for each city employing the fewest people to get them. Players get 10 points for each different resource they obtain for their cities. They receive 1 free time point for each 1,000 people they do not employ.

Bob Gill and Bob Blain, who invented the game, believe that AUTONOMY simulates the ideal system that could become how we live in the future. It was developed over twenty years of sociology classes playing the game, each time correcting problems until we found a system that would produce wealth for everyone with a minimum of work.

The game is based on Information Chain Theory.

Download COOPERATION®: The Wealth of Nations Game® here. Cooperation Version 3

For more information about the game as a teaching tool, email me at: rblain@siue.edu