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Book Synopsis Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality by : Edward O'Donnell
Download or read book Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality written by Edward O'Donnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Henry George by : P. Bryson
Download or read book The Economics of Henry George written by P. Bryson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry George the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists who trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a 'single tax'. There is much literature on many specific facets and aspects of George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics... until now!
Book Synopsis Progress and poverty by : Henry George
Download or read book Progress and poverty written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Essence of Progress and Poverty by : Henry George
Download or read book The Essence of Progress and Poverty written by Henry George and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise text, the distinguished American philosopher John Dewey compiled excerpts from the massive Progress and Poverty to provide those unfamiliar with Henry George's work with the essence of the author's thinking on economics. In his Foreword, Dewey noted, "It would require less than the fingers of the two hands to enumerate those who from Plato down rank with [George]. No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great American thinker." Fifteen brief chapters feature passages from George's highly influential book and examine why poverty persists throughout periods of economic and technological progress as well as the basis for economic cycles of boom and bust.
Book Synopsis The Annotated Works of Henry George by : Francis K. Peddle
Download or read book The Annotated Works of Henry George written by Francis K. Peddle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V of The Annotated Works of Henry George presents the unabridged and posthumously published text of The Science of Political Economy (1898). George's original text is comprehensively supplemented by annotations which explain his many references to other political economists and writers both well known and obscure.
Book Synopsis The Crime of Poverty by : Henry George
Download or read book The Crime of Poverty written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Henry George by : Henry George
Download or read book The Complete Works of Henry George written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The life of Henry George, by his son by : Henry George
Download or read book The life of Henry George, by his son written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Henry George Publisher :Morang ; New York : Doubleday & McClure ; London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner ISBN 13 : Total Pages :600 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (32 download)
Book Synopsis The Science of Political Economy by : Henry George
Download or read book The Science of Political Economy written by Henry George and published by Morang ; New York : Doubleday & McClure ; London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1898 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alternative America by : John L. Thomas
Download or read book Alternative America written by John L. Thomas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George's Progress and Poverty, Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth championed a national policy allied neither with large-scale capitalism, nor with bureaucratic socialism. Through vivid portraits of these journalists, Thomas traces the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.
Book Synopsis The Life of Henry George by : Henry George
Download or read book The Life of Henry George written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Annotated Works of Henry George by : Francis K. Peddle
Download or read book The Annotated Works of Henry George written by Francis K. Peddle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of The Annotated Works of Henry George assembles all his major works for the first time with new introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material, and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for scholars and reformers. Volume II of this series presents the unabridged text of Progress and Poverty, arguably the most influential work of Henry George. The original text is supplemented by notes which explain the changes George made during his lifetime and the many references he made to history, literature, economics, and public policy. A new index augments accessibility to the text and key terms. The introductory essay, “The Rhetoric and the Remedy,” by series co-editor William S. Peirce, provides an overview of the historical context for George’s philosophy of economics and summarizes the argument of Progress and Poverty within the framework of the economic theories of his day. It then looks at some of the early reactions by leading economists and opinion makers to George’s fervent and eloquent call for economic justice. Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty in order to identify and resolve the great paradox of modern industrial life. How was it possible for abject poverty, financial instability, and extreme economic inequality to co-exist with rising productivity and technological progress? He analyzed and rejected the widely held beliefs that poverty inevitably followed from the laws of economics or from a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest. George concluded that at the heart of this dilemma was how society treated natural resources, especially urban land. He did not succumb to the panacea of arbitrarily confiscating property or taking from the rich to give to the poor. George argued that taxes on productive labor and capital should be drastically reduced. His “sovereign remedy” declared that public goods could be adequately funded from the returns to land and other natural resources. The activities of society as a whole give land its value. It is therefore both equitable and efficient for the community to tax or recapture land values to support the activities of government.
Book Synopsis The Cities of Gujaráshtra by : Henry George Briggs
Download or read book The Cities of Gujaráshtra written by Henry George Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Land Use & Taxation by : Howard James Brown
Download or read book Land Use & Taxation written by Howard James Brown and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can today's policy makers and researchers effectively draw on the ideas of nineteenth-century philosopher Henry George to help solve twenty-first-century problems? This compendium presents eight essays by scholars who demonstrate that many of George's ideas about land use and taxation remain valuable today.
Book Synopsis Life of George Henry by : George Henry
Download or read book Life of George Henry written by George Henry and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis George Henry Thomas by : Brian Steel Wills
Download or read book George Henry Thomas written by Brian Steel Wills and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often counted among the Union's top five generals, George Henry Thomas has still not received his due. A Virginian who sided with the North in the Civil War, he was a more complicated commander than traditional views have allowed. Brian Wills now provides a new and more complete look at the life of a man known to history as "The Rock of Chickamauga," to his troops as "Old Pap," and to General William T. Sherman as a soldier who was "as true as steel." While biographers have long been hampered by Thomas's lack of personal papers, Wills has drawn on previously untapped sources—notably the correspondence of Thomas's contemporaries—to offer new insights into what made him tick. Focusing on Thomas's personality and motivations, Wills contributes revealing discussions of his style and approach to command and successfully captures his troubled interactions with other Union commanders, providing a particularly more evenhanded evaluation of his relationship with Grant. He also gives a more substantial account of battlefield action than can be found in other biographies, capturing the ebb and flow of key encounters—Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga and Atlanta, Stones River and Mill Springs, Peachtree Creek and Nashville—to help readers better understand Thomas's contributions to their outcomes. Throughout Wills presents a well-rounded individual whose complex views embraced the worlds of professional military service and scientific inquisitiveness, a man known for attention to detail and compassion to subordinates. We also meet a sharp-tempered person whose disdain for politics hurt his prospects for advancement as much as it reflected positively on his character, and Wills offers new insight into why Thomas might not have progressed as quickly up the ladder of command as he might have liked. More deeply researched than other biographies, Wills's work situates Thomas squarely in his own time to provide readers with a more thorough and balanced life story of this enigmatic Union general. It is a definitive military history that gives us a new and needed picture of the Rock of Chickamauga—a man whose devotion to duty and ideals made him as true as steel.
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Henry George by : Henry George
Download or read book The Complete Works of Henry George written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
