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

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.