Henry George
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Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in the 19th century, and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. His writings also inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, based on the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value derived from land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society.
His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of rent capture such as land value tax and other anti-monopoly reforms as a remedy for these and other social problems.
See also
- Geolibertarianism
- Georgism
- Charles Hall – An early precursor to Henry George
- Henry George Birthplace
- Henry George Theorem
- History of the board game Monopoly
- Land Value Tax
- Left-libertarianism
- Libertarian socialism
- New York City mayoral elections
- Spaceship Earth
- Tammany Hall#1870-1900