Overlooked No More: Lizzie Magie, the Unknown Inventor Behind Monopoly

nytimes.com/2024/04/12/obituaries/lizzie-magie-overlooked.html

Lizzie Magie in 1892. She conceived of The Landlord’s Game as an ideological tool about political economics.
Magie’s creation, The Landlord’s Game, inspired the spinoff we know today. But credit for the idea long went to someone else.
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The…

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