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Our Land & Land Policy : Speeches Lectures, and Miscellaneous Writings.

By Henry George

Book information

Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780870135224, 0870135228
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19962422 bytes)
Pages
273\273
Time added
2016-10-19 15:37:58
Land tenure -- United States;Public lands -- Calif

Description

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 the time he died in 1897, his assessments of liberal 19th-century economic theory were critically accl.  Read more...

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