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When Money Isn’t Real: The $10,000 Experiment

When Money Isn’t Real: The $10,000 Experiment

by Adam Carroll

What could you learn about handling money if you played Monopoly with actual cash?

One Sunday morning, my children came down to the kitchen and found $10,000 in cold, hard cash on the counter, with a sign next to it that said, “Don’t touch the money yet.” While they didn’t know it, they were about to become unwitting participants in a behavioral economics experiment.

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