Talk:Poleconomy

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We used to have a copy (New Zealand edition) when I was a kid. I can't remember al the details but one of the perks of being prime minister was setting whether the inflation rate would go up or down. Prices for companies and rents were a multiple of the rate. So if you had most of the companies alreadsy you'd set the rate upwards to increase your rents. I also recall many of the companies on the board being wiped out in the 1987 stock market crash... Lisiate (talk) 23:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

cheers, i've adjusted the text. gotta reference for the stock market crash? sounds interesting. Boomshanka (talk) 14:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll just note here that I own a copy (NZ edition) should anybody have questions about it. Mathmo ^Talk 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Possible patent

Would US Patent no. 4,522,407 be about the game? I can't remember the details. -- Avenue (talk) 01:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

First published

When was it first published? TheGames says 1983.[1] BoardGameGeek says 1977 and that the Canadian edition was re-published in 1983. [2] Thomas and Young in the NBR article refer to it as "this 1983 homegrown competitor to Monopoly". Nurg (talk) 11:22, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

The 1977 date appears to be wrong. Nurg (talk) 11:45, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Grotesque by modern standards ?

As an ex-owner of this inane game, I resent the amount of time I wasted on it in the 1980's. By modern standards it was grotesquely simplistic. As to the various "national" editions, I think they expoited the different markets by pretending to have genuine "local" content when they had none.I suspect too that the companies paying for the advertising of their brands ( a tax write -off ?) served to subsidise the cost of the game to consumer buyers, a further exploitation of those consumers Feroshki (talk) 04:29, 19 March 2010 (UTC)