Henry George, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry George

American economist

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1839

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 29-Oct-1897

Profession: writer, politician, economist, editor, journalist, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Henry George

  • Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist.
  • He promoted the "single tax" on land, though he avoided that term.
  • His writing was immensely popular in the 19th century America, and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.
  • He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, based on the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value derived from land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society.
  • He argued that a single tax on land would itself reform society and economy. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time.
  • The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of rent capture such as land value tax and other anti-monopoly reforms as a remedy for these and other social problems. The mid-20th century labor economist and journalist George Soule wrote that George was "By far the most famous American economic writer," and "author of a book which probably had a larger world-wide circulation than any other work on economics ever written."

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