Dr. Ralph Anspach

Ralph Anspach is a retired professor of Economics at San Francisco State University. He is the creator of The Billion Dollar Monopoly® Swindle, invented the Anti-Monopoly board game, copyrighted The original monopoly game.

Frustrated in his search for a commercial producer for his first game, he left the ivory tower, formed his own company, and stumbled into the market on his own.  Eventually, sold a million games worldwide.


On the way, he was sideswiped by the makers of Monopoly with a ten-year law suit, which he finally won in the United States Supreme Court. During the legal wars, he became the Monopoly Detective, who uncovered the secret history of Monopoly, a slice of Americana, both the good side and the bad.