Henry George
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. George famously argued that a single tax on land values would create a more productive and just society.His most famous work, ''Progress and Poverty'' (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide. The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress, the business cycle with its cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of rent capture such as land value taxation and other anti-monopoly reforms as a remedy for these and other social problems. Other works by George defended free trade, the secret ballot, free (at marginal cost) public utilities/transportation provided by the capture of their resulting land rent uplift, Pigouvian taxation, and public ownership of other natural monopolies.
George was a journalist for many years, and the popularity of his writing and speeches brought him to run for election as Mayor of New York City in 1886. As the United Labor Party nominee in 1886 and in 1897 as the Jefferson Democracy Party nominee, he received 31 percent and 4 percent of the vote respectively and finished ahead of former New York State Assembly minority leader Theodore Roosevelt in the first race. After his death during the second campaign, his ideas were carried forward by organizations and political leaders through the United States and other Anglophone countries. The mid-20th century labor economist and journalist George Soule wrote that George was by far "the most famous American economic writer" and "author of a book which probably had a larger world-wide circulation than any other work on economics ever written." Provided by Wikipedia
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The works of Henry George / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Protection or free trade : an examination of the tariff question, with especial regard to the interests of labor / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Our land and land policy : speeches, lectures and miscellaneous writings / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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The land question : what it involves, and how alone it can be settled / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Progress and poverty; an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth; the remedy. by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Progress and poverty : an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth : the remedy / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Protection or free trade : an examination of the tariff question with especial regard to the interests of labor / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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A perplexed philosopher : being an examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's various utterances on the land question with some incidental reference to his synthetic philosophy / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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The science of political economy : a reconstruction of its principles in clear and systematic form / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Social problems / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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The land question, and related writings : viewpoint and conterviewpoint on the need for land reform / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Significant paragraphs from Henry George's Progress and poverty / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Progress and poverty, an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth; the remedy, by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Henry George's writings on the United Kingdom / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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Our land and land policy : speeches, lectures, and miscellaneous writings / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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The law of human progress / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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The condition of labor : an open letter to Pope Leo XIII / by George, Henry, 1839-1897
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