The Monopoly Board Game and the Problem of Fraudulent U.S. Currency Post the U.S. Civil War (1861 – 1865): The Etymology of the “Monopoly” Board Game, the Person Who Created the Monopoly Board Game, the Board Game U.S. Game Designer Charles Darrow Predicated the Monopoly Board Game Upon, the Reason U.S. Game Publisher Parker Brothers Refused to Purchase the Rights to Manufacture and Distribute the Monopoly Board Game, the Total Number of Monopoly Board Game Units Sold World Wide, the Hypothesized Total Economic Value of Fraudulent U.S. Currency Within Circulation, and the U.S. Government’s Intervention to Combat Fraudulent Currency Manufacturing During the U.S. Civil War

Anthony Ambrosius Aurelius

5 years ago

䷖The board game Monopoly is entitled as such because players are entitled to double their rent after having purchased an entire neighborhood of the board, thus instituting a “monopoly” over the real estate industry within the game. Charles Darrow created Monopoly and licensed it to the Parker Brothers, who gave Darrow a tiny share of each game sold. It was later discovered that Darrow based his entire game upon Elizabeth Magie’s board game entitled the “Landlord’s Game”. Parker Brothers initiall...

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