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Lizzie Magie — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1866–1948 · United States · Inventor & Georgist

Lizzie Magie

The Landlord's Game

Taught land economics through play.

Reformist Georgism →
Economic+20
SocialistMarket
Governance−50
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+55
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The inventor whose 'Landlord's Game' — the ancestor of Monopoly — was designed to teach Henry George's lesson that land monopoly concentrates wealth, a Georgist parable in a board.

social

Progressive feminist reformer.

economic

Designed a game to show how land monopoly impoverishes.

governance

Georgist reform through popular education.

Notable for
  • Invented 'The Landlord's Game'
  • Georgist educator
  • Monopoly's true originator
land-monopolyeducationsingle-tax
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