<P> The history of the board game Monopoly can be traced back to the early 20th century . The earliest known version of Monopoly , known as The Landlord 's Game , was designed by an American , Elizabeth Magie , and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902 . Magie , a follower of Henry George , originally intended The Landlord 's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo 's Law of Economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation . A series of board games were developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land . By 1933 , a board game had been created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its related companies through the rest of the 20th century , and into the 21st . Several people , mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast , contributed to the game 's design and evolution . </P>
what did the original game of monopoly portray
the economic consequences of Ricardo 's Law of Economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation