“... that it expands when there is a tendency to speculation, and sharply contracts just when most needed to assure confidence and prevent industrial waste.”
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Henry George
Henry George was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was 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 should belong equally to all members of societ…
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culture · American political economist (1839–1897) · economist · philosopher · journalist · editor · politician · writer · also Henry George, George
Born 2 September 1839 · Died 29 October 1897 · Q355245
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2026· 3 entries
“made almost as great an impression on the economic thought of the age as Darwin did on the world of science.”
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“the most famous American economic writer”
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2009· 1 entry
Tyler Cowen wrote that George's 1886 book Protection or Free Trade "remains perhaps the best-argued tract on free trade to this day
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1997· 1 entry
Spencer MacCallum wrote that Henry George was "undeniably the greatest writer and orator on free trade who ever lived
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1977· 1 entry
Joseph Stiglitz showed that under certain conditions, spending by the government on public goods will increase aggregate land rents by at least an equal amount
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1926· 1 entry
And they were moderately successful in the post-war period and managed to join a governing coalition with the Social Democrats and the Social Liberal Party from the years 1957–60, with diminishing success afterwards
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1915· 1 entry
Two courts ruled that the Houston Plan violated the Texas Constitution
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1906· 1 entry
In order to dedicate his life to public service, then traveled the United States and Europe while studying various systems of taxing property
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1904· 1 entry
Lizzie Magie created a board game called The Landlord's Game to demonstrate George's theories
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1897· 5 entries
Died 1897-10-29.
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William Jennings Bryan wrote that George's genius had reached and affected the global reading public, and that he "was one of the foremost thinkers of the world
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George again ran for mayor of New York City, supported again, as he was in 1886, by Charles Frederic Adams
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This time as an Independent Democrat, saying, "I will make the race if I die for it
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That "Henry George may be considered to have exercised a more directly powerful formative and educative influence over English radicalism of the last fifteen years than any other man," and that George "was able to drive
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1892· 1 entry
Alfred Russel Wallace stated that George's Progress and Poverty was "undoubtedly the most remarkable and important book of the present century," implicitly placing it above even The Origin of Species, which he had earlie
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1890· 2 entries
Pastoriza lent use of his property to the league in 1903
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After a global speaking tour concerning land rights and the relationship between rent and poverty
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1888· 1 entry
Under the leadership of Richard Henry Dana III
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1886· 2 entries
George campaigned for mayor of New York City as the candidate of the short-lived United Labor Party
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As the United Labor Party nominee and in 1897 as the Jefferson Democracy nominee, where he received 31 percent and 4 percent of the vote respectively and finished ahead of former New York State Assembly minority leader a
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1880· 1 entry
Now a popular writer and speaker, George moved to New York City, becoming closely allied with the Irish nationalist community despite being of English ancestry
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1878· 1 entry
George was nominated as a delegate on both the Democratic and Workingmen's tickets, but lost the latter's nomination after he refused to recognize Kearney as leader of the party
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1871· 2 entries
Served as secretary of the Democratic state convention as it renominated Haight
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George went for a horseback ride and stopped to rest while overlooking San Francisco Bay
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1869· 1 entry
When he sought the Democratic nomination for California State Assembly
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1862· 1 entry
Annie gave birth to Henry George Jr
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1861· 1 entry
With Henry dressed in a borrowed suit and Annie bringing only a packet of books
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1858· 1 entry
And briefly considered prospecting for gold but instead started work the same year in San Francisco as a type setter
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1839· 2 entries
Born 1839-09-02.
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“s deism and humanism. Career in journalism After deciding against gold mining in British Columbia, George was hired as a printer for the newly created San Francisco Times. He was able to immediately submit editorials for publication, including the popular What the Railroads Will Bring Us (1868), which remained required reading in California schools for decades. George climbed the ranks of the Times, eventually becoming managing editor in the summer of 1867. George”
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