Henry George

Tags: Economist.

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 also known as the single tax on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism whose main tenet is that people should own what they create but that everything found in nature most importantly the value of land belongs equally to all humanity.

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1839-09-02

birth place

Philadelphia

death date

1897-10-29

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Henry George

influenced

Herbert A. Simon, John Dewey, Albert Jay Nock, Joseph Stiglitz, William Vickrey, Silvio Gesell, Philip Wicksteed, Leo Tolstoy, Spencer Heath

influenced by

Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, François Quesnay