Henry George and His Single Tax
Author: Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward O'Donnell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0231539266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.
Author: New York Public Library
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Howard James Brown
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558441248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Can today's policy makers and researchers effectively draw on the ideas of nineteenth-century philosopher Henry George to help solve twenty-first-century problems? This compendium presents eight essays by scholars who demonstrate that many of George's ideas about land use and taxation remain valuable today.
Author: P. Bryson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-14
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230119980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henry George the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists who trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a 'single tax'. There is much literature on many specific facets and aspects of George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics... until now!