{"id":306,"date":"2013-09-25T21:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T02:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?p=306"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:43:54","slug":"grand-theft-auto-v-as-financial-education-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2013\/09\/25\/grand-theft-auto-v-as-financial-education-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto V as Financial Education Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazygamer.net\/xbox-360\/why-the-local-gta-v-price-is-increasing\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.lazygamer.net\/2013\/09\/GTAmoney.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDiscussing Grant Theft Auto V&#8217;s stock market system on last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2013\/09\/16\/super-joystiq-podcast-065-grand-theft-auto-5\/\">Super Joystiq Podcast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Xav\">Xav De Matos<\/a> learns that capitalism, not crime, is the best way to prosperity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wish I knew about this system when I first started, because every time I got a dime I would just put it in that stock.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk about subversive messages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing Grant Theft Auto V&#8217;s stock market system on last week&#8217;s Super Joystiq Podcast, Xav De Matos learns that capitalism, not crime, is the best way to prosperity: &#8220;I wish I knew about this system when I first started, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2013\/09\/25\/grand-theft-auto-v-as-financial-education-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53641],"tags":[1495],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-educational-games","tag-games-for-change","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}