WORK'S DIALOGUE WITH HENRY GEORGE

Sutton, P.M.

Published by Privately Printed [Marshall Printing Company, 1887

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8vo. 203[3]p. Green cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and with a leaf decoration in black on the front cover. Some wear to extremities but nothing rubbed through, corners very lightly bumped, top and bottom of spine showing signs of wanting to fray, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Henry George [1839 - 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. He promoted the "single tax" on land. His writing was immensely popular in 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." Even though this book was published near the end of 19th century, the issues it discusses are still with us and more or less unresolved!. Seller Inventory # 009020

Bibliographic Details

Title: WORK'S DIALOGUE WITH HENRY GEORGE

Publisher: Privately Printed [Marshall Printing Company

Publication Date: 1887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition