Progress and Poverty: Full and Fine Text of 1880 Edition (Illustrated)

Progress and Poverty: Full and Fine Text of 1880 Edition (Illustrated)

by Henry George
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Publication Date: 30/08/2014

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Henry George was an American political economist and he was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism that we still can feel its strong influence on modern American life. Today, American economic structure has moved away from a natural resource based economy to knowledge based economy that Henry George should be given a credit for this.  His essential view about value is that people should own what they create. Everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. 


Henry George is best known for his Progress and Poverty that Albert Einstein designated George a "beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic forum, and fervent love of justice". The book Progress and Poverty by Henry George in 1879 is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy


This book is for readers who need to learn and understand the core economic value, economic policy, and its future economic direction of America.


 

ISBN:
1230000264591
1230000264591
Category:
Macroeconomics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-08-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
AS Team
Henry George

Henry George (1839–97) went to sea on a merchant ship at age 15 and by the end of the 1850s was working in San Francisco as a typesetter. A career in journalism followed, and George gradually become a successful popular speaker on the issues of his day as well as an effective writer. He moved to New York around the time Progress and Poverty was published and ran for mayor, losing in an election that may have been marred by fraud. His second campaign for mayor ended with a fatal stroke. Thousands turned out for his funeral, which was described as the largest in New York's history (or at least the largest since the death of Abraham Lincoln); even George's bitterest opponents at Tammany Hall flew their flag at half-staff on that day.

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