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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... (ULP) and selected the reformer Henry George as their candidate for mayor. The motivation behind both the campaign and ... ULP's announcement of the parade described workers as being “unjustly deprived of the blessings which should be ...
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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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