   monopoly is an american-originated board game originally published by parker brothers. subtitled "the fast-dealing property trading game", the game is named after the economic concept of monopolyâthe domination of a market by a single entity. it is produced by the united states game and toy company hasbro. players move around the gameboard buying or trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them into bankruptcy. ==history==  ===early history=== the history of monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when an american woman named elizabeth (lizzie) j. magie phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of henry george (it was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). her game, the landlord's game, was self-published, beginning in 1906. a series of variant board games based on her concept were developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. ===origin=== by 1933, a board game called monopoly had been created which formed the basis of the game sold by parker brothers, beginning in 1935. several people, mostly in the midwestern united states and near the east coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution, and this is when the game's design took on the 4Ã10 space-to-a-sid
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