Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded AgeColumbia University Press, 9 Jun 2015 - 368 halaman 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. |
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Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age Edward O'Donnell. Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age Edward T. O'Donnell Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since ...
... Gilded Age” in Common-Place 11, no. 1 (October 2010), http://www.common -place.org/vol-11/no-01/lessons. Used by permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O'Donnell, Edward T., 1963– Henry George ...
... Gilded Age, a period defined roughly between the years 1865 and 1900. As the name suggests, many at the time considered it a golden age, one marked by spectacular advances in industrial output and technological innovation that ...
... era—the Gilded Age—also suggested a disturbing superficiality to all this evidence of progress. As with a gilded piece of jewelry, it suggested that one need only to scratch the surface of the thin gold layer to find the baser metal ...
... Gilded Age's social turmoil was Progress and Poverty, published in 1879 by Henry George, the man nominated by the ULP as labor's candidate for mayor of New York in 1886. The book's title itself perfectly captured the vexing duality ...
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The Emergence of New Political Forces 18801885 | 67 |
The Great Upheaval 18861887 | 167 |
Epilogue | 277 |
Notes | 283 |
Index
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