Henry George

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Henry George


Born
in Philadelphia, The United States
September 02, 1839

Died
October 29, 1897

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Henry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who 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, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.
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Progress and Poverty: An In...

4.30 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 1879 — 274 editions
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Protection or Free Trade

4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1886 — 118 editions
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Social Problems

4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1981 — 112 editions
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The Essence of Progress and...

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The Crime of Poverty

4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions
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The Science of Political Ec...

3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1897 — 58 editions
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Progress and Poverty

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The Land Question: What It ...

4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 79 editions
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Our Land and Land Policy

4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992 — 41 editions
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Significant Paragraphs from...

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“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.”
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“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.”
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“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
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