Progress and Poverty

Progress and Poverty
Author: Henry George
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2020
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3849657973

This is the book that made its author Henry George suddenly famous. From the year 1879 to the present the doctrines of 'Progress and Poverty' have been familiar to all who are interested in social problems. The book has been read by many to whom Political Economy is still 'the dismal science', and it has been circulated in cheap editions by the thousand among the classes to which it holds out such an alluring prospect. 'Progress and Poverty' has become a classic in labor literature. Its doctrines have been accepted not only by many who see in them a means of personal rescue from distress and want, but by many others who are convinced by the reasoning of the author. Clergymen , in the Catholic as well as in the Protestant church, have become Mr. George's disciples, and business and professional men have gladly sat at his feet.

The Economics of Henry George

The Economics of Henry George
Author: P. Bryson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781349296934

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!

Economics in One Lesson

Economics in One Lesson
Author: Henry Hazlitt
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307760626

With over a million copies sold, Economics in One Lesson is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong — and strongly reasoned — anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.

Making the Modern American Fiscal State

Making the Modern American Fiscal State
Author: Ajay K. Mehrotra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107043921

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

Henry George

Henry George
Author: Steven B. Cord
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1512815322

Historians have come to realize that Henry George exerted an important influence on the development of American Democratic thought. Numerous reformers of the Progressive Era acknowledged that their thinking had been vitally affected by an early reading of Progress and Poverty. His ethical analysis has attracted much favorable attention. In this book Steven B. Cord reviews the treatment accorded Henry George by American economists and historians from 1879 to the present and conclusion that, despite his widely recognized importance as a seminal figure in both history and economics, Henry George's ideas have not been well understood by many writers in those fields.

The Corruption of Economics

The Corruption of Economics
Author: Mason Gaffney
Publisher: Georgist Paradigm
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780856832444

Condemning the post-industrial economy to protracted periods of economic failure, this thought-provoking book documents how the integrity of economics as a discipline was deliberately compromised in the United States towards the end of the 19th century. Several chairs of economics were funded at leading universities to rebrand economics to justify unearned income. The tools for this strategy became neo-classical economics, and, unlike classical economists like Adam Smith who described wealth as the product of three factors--land, labor, and capital--the new theorists reduced these to two: labor and capital, thus treating land as capital. This concealed the benefits enjoyed by those in receipt of the rent from land. The effect, the authors reveal, was to deprive professional economists of the ability to diagnose problems, forecast important trends, and prescribe solutions.