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Henry George
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Henry George was an American economist and journalist who lived from 1839 to 1897 and developed influential ideas about land, property, and economic justice. His work shaped debates about taxation and wealth distribution that continue to influence economic policy and political philosophy today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1882
- Died
- 1965
- Works
- 66
Top works
- Maṣādir al-mūsīqá al-ʻArabīyah
- Instruments of music
- Music in 18th century Scotland
- Turkish instruments of music in the seventeenth century
- Byzantine musical instruments in the ninth century
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1685-02-23
- Active to
- 1759-04-14
Discography
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- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 163
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Quotes
- “It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.”
- “It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.”
- “The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.”
- “There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.”
- “The intelligence required for the solving of social problems is not a thing of the mere intellect. It must be animated with the religious sentiment and warm with sympathy for human suffering. It must stretch out beyond self-interest, whether it be the self-interest of the few or of the many. It must seek justice. For at the bottom of every social problem we will find a social wrong.”
- “How can a man be said to have a country where he has no right to a square inch of soil...”
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Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, social philosopher 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.