Henry George and His Single Tax
Author : Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Single tax
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Author : Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Single tax
ISBN :
Author : Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Single tax
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Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Single tax
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Author : Edward O'Donnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0231539266
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.
Author : Rollin Alger Sawyer
Publisher :
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Single tax
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Author : Louis Freeland Post
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Economics
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Author : Arthur Nichols Young
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Single tax
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Author : Henry George
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Poverty
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Author : Henry George
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Economics
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Author : Ronald William Yanosky
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Single tax
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