 | Our Land & Land Policy: Speeches Lectures, and Miscellaneous Writings 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 acclaimed in Europe and the United States. Henry George (September 2, 1839 - October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax. Kenneth C. Wenzer is a Faculty Associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and a researcher for the Center for the Study of Economics. |
