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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... radical land reform (via land-value taxation that came to be called “the single tax”) as a means of eliminating the crushing mass poverty, restricted opportunity, and increased inequality that accompanied industrial progress, the book ...
Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age Edward O'Donnell. Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality PART I The Making of a Radical, 1839–1879 This association.
... Radical, 1839–1879 This association of poverty with progress, is the great enigma of our times. . . . It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed. —Henry George ...
... workman may have toiled hard and long, but in his work he had companionship, variety, the pleasure that comes of the exercise of creative skill, the sense of seeing things growing under his 4 THE MAKING OF A RADICAL, 1839–1879.
... radical journeymen. Entrepreneurial republicanism championed absolute private property rights, freedom of contract, and individualism, and it utterly repudiated any suggestion that American society was divided into conflicting social ...
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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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