The Landlord's Game
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The Landlord's Game is a game that was developed in 1904 by Lizzie Magie. A board game, it was designed to promote the ideas of Henry George.[1]
The Landlord's Game is the direct predecessor for the more well known game of Monopoly.[1]
Background
Lizzie Magie lived[2] in a Single Tax Colony in Arden, Delaware, which is where she developed the game. It was popular with the residents of Arden after its inception.[3]
Anti Capitalism
The game is designed to teach the ideas of Georgism and the book Progress and Poverty.[4][5][6][7][8]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Waddingtons Story: From the early days to Monopoly, the Maxwell bids and into the next Millennium
- ↑ Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
- ↑ Monopoly, the Story Behind the World's Best-selling Game
- ↑ Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality, Smithsonian Institution
- ↑ How Henry George's Principles Were Corrupted Into the Game Called Monopoly
- ↑ Anti-Capitalist Ideology Animated First ‘Monopoly’ Game
- ↑ The scandal behind the anti-capitalist roots of Monopoly
- ↑ Was Monopoly originally meant to teach people about the evils of capitalism?