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Lizzie J. Magie (performed by Helena Bonham Carter) ought to be celebrated because the inventor of what would turn into Monopoly. However, although she had a patent, her function in creating the smash hit board recreation was cynically ignored.
Discrimination has marred the careers of many inventors and excluded others from the innovation financial system fully. May crediting forgotten figures equivalent to Lizzie Magie assist change that?
Additional studying
The important guide on the key historical past of Monopoly is Mary Pilon’s The Monopolists, supplemented by Christopher Ketcham’s article “Monopoly is Theft” and Mary Pilon’s characteristic in Smithsonian journal.
Lisa Prepare dinner’s articles embody “Unequal Alternative: The Innovation Hole in Pink and Black,” in Wisnioski, Hintz, and Stettler Kleine, eds., Does America Want Extra Innovators? , MIT Press, 2019; “Overcoming Discrimination by Customers through the Age of Segregation: The Instance of Garrett Morgan.” The Enterprise Historical past Evaluation, vol. 86, no. 2, 2012; and Lisa Prepare dinner, 2014. “Violence and financial exercise: proof from African American patents, 1870–1940,” Journal of Financial Progress, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 221-257, June.
For extra on Raj Chetty and the group at Alternative Insights see Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John van Reenen “Who Turns into an Inventor in America? The Significance of Publicity to Innovation” and “American Inventors” The Economist 4th December 2017.