Our land and land policy;: Speeches, lectures, and miscellaneous writings (The complete works of Henry George, v. 8)

by Henry George

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Even before the publication of Progress and Poverty in 1879, San Francisco political economist and publisher Henry George (1839-1897) had written extensively about what he considered to be the causes for worldwide economic inequity-land monopolization and speculation by wealthy entrepreneurs and corrupt politicians. But his attacks on these evils were coupled with a plan for a possible brighter future, for a world in which disparities between people of different classes could be adjusted. By show more the time he died in 1897, his assessments of liberal 19th-century economic theory were critically accl show less

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333.1Society, government, & cultureEconomicsEconomics of land and energyState ownership
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HD1311 .O5Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborLand useNationalization (Agrarian socialism)
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