Georgists liked the idea of having lots of shared public spaces. Instead of free parking, cars weren’t as big of a deal in 1904, so you have ‘free park.’” “The circular design, you go around and around. “And when you look at the board, you see a lot of today’s Monopoly board in it,” Pilon says. Georgism is kind of complicated - but it’s the idea that land should belong equally to everyone. Magie used one of those games to promote an economic ideology called Georgism, named after Henry George, a 19th-century economist and social reformer. “And she was very outspoken at a time when that wasn’t quite accepted by the mainstream as a thing that women should do. She wrote poetry and short stories, and performed in theatrical plays. She was an early advocate for womens’ suffrage and racial equality. Magie was born into an abolitionist family in Illinois. “Liz Magie was a really fascinating person,” she says. Bloomsbury Elizabeth Magie's Landlord's Game.
