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Henry George, 1839-1897.

Portrait of H. George

19th Century American journalist, populist economist and leader of the "Single Tax" or "Agrarian Socialism" movement that spread in the United States in the 1880s, and abroad.  

 

  


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Major works of Henry George

  • "What the Railroad Will Bring Us", 1868, Overland Monthly (Oct), p.297
  • Our Land and Land Policy: National and state, 1871. [bk] [1901 ed], [1911 CW  v.8]
  • "The American Republic: its dangers and possibilities", 1877 speech, unpub [CW, v.8, p.157]
  • "The Study of Political Economy: 1877 lecture at Berkeley",  pub1880, Popular Science Monthly (Mar), p.601 [CW, v.8, p.133]
  • "Ode to Liberty",  July 4, 1877  [rsf]
  • "Moses: a lecture" (June 1878), unpub [1898 MW, v.8, p.549] [rsf]
  • Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase in want with increase of wealth, 1879 [bk], [1886 repr, 1911 CW v.1, 1920 ed], [London 1880 repr, 1884 repr]- [lib, rsf, hgss, hgi]  [audio]
  • The Irish Land Question: what it involves and how alone it can be settled, 1881 [bk]  [1884 ed. retitled The Land Question [bk] [1911 CW, v.3] [rsf]
  • Social Problems, 1883. [bk] [1911 CW v.2], [rsf]
  • "Testimony to Senate Committee upon the Relations between Labor and Capital",  February 1883 [in 1885, Report to the Committee of the Senate on the Relations between Labor and Capital,  v.1]
  • "Scotland and Scotsmen", speech in Glasgow, Feb 18, 1884, unpub [rsf]
  • "The Reduction to Iniquity", 1884, Nineteenth Century (July), p.134 (reply to Duke of Argyll) [offpr, offpr as Property in Land] [rsf]
  • "Is our Civilization Just to Workingmen?", Oct 1884, 9th Church Congress, p.135
  • The Crime of Poverty: an address Apr 1, 1885, 1885 [bk] [CW v.8, p.187] [rsf]
  • "Land and Taxation: A conversation", 1885, North American Review (Jul), p.1 [CW v.8, p.221] [rsf]
  • Protection or Free Trade: An examination of the tariff question, with special regard to the interests of labor, 1886. [bk] [1890 ed] [1911 CW, v.4] [rsf]
  • "Thou Shalt Not Steal",  speech in New York, May 1887, pub. The Standard (May 14, 1887) [CW v.8, p.243] [rsf]
  • "Why the Landlord cannot shift the tax on land values", 1887, The Standard (Sep 10) [rsf]
  • "What we Stand For", speech Nov 1887 [rsf]
  • "Henry George and the Socialists: A Debate", 1887, The Standard
  • "Socialism vs. the Single Tax", 1887, The Standard (Dec 31) (vs. R.T. Ely)
  • "To Workingmen", 1888, Belford's Magazine (Jun), p.36 [CW, v.8, p.265]
  • Land and People, 1888 [bk]
  • They Kingdom Come: a sermon in Glasgow, 28th April 1889, 1889 [bk] [CW, v.8, p.288] [rsf]
  • "The Land for the People" address in Ireland, July 11, 1889, unpub [rsf]
  • "Peace" speech in Poughkeepsie, Aug 25, 1889 [first pub. in Financial Reformer, Oct 1898] [rsf]
  • "Justice the Object - Taxation the Means", speech Feb 4, 1890, unpub [CW, v.8, p.295] [rsf]
  • "The Single Tax - What it is and why we urge it", 1890, Christian Advocate [rsf]
  • "Remarks of Henry George at Single Tax Debate at Saratoga, Sep 5, 1890", 1890, JSSA (No. 29),  p.73.
  • The Condition of Labour: An open letter to Pope Leo XIII, 1891 [bk], [1892 2nd ed, 1897 ed] [rsf]
  • A Perplexed Philosopher: being an examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's various utterances on the Land Question, with some incidental reference to his Synthetic Philosophy, 1892 [bk] [1911 CW v.5] [rsf]
  • "How to Help the Unemployed", 1894, North American Review (Feb), p.175
  • "Causes of the Business Depression", 1894, Once a Week (Mar 6) [CW v.8, p.323] [rsf]
  • "Peace by Standing Army", 1894 (July 12 speech), unpub [CW, v.8, p.333]
  • "Utility and Futility of Labor Strikes", 1897, Cleveland Recorder (Sep 5), [rsf]
  • The Science of Political Economy, 1898 [bk] [1911 CW, v.6 & v.7] [rsf]
  • Memorial Edition of the Writings of Henry George, 1898-1900
    • v.1 - Progress & Poverty, Pt. 1
    • v.2 -  Progress & Poverty, Pt. 2
    • v.3 - Social Problems
    • v.4 - Land Question, Property in Land, Condition of Labor
    • v.5 - Protection or Free Trade
    • v.6 - Perplexed philosopher
    • v.7 - Science of PE, Pt. 1
    • v.8 - Science of PE, Pt. 2
    • v. 9 (1901) - Our Land & Land policy
    •  v.10 (1900) Life by George Jr
  • The Complete Works of Henry George, 1904. (Doubleday ed)
    • v.1 - Progress & Poverty
    • v.2 - Social Problems
    • v.3 - Land Question
    • v.4 - Protection or Free Trade
    • v.5 - Perplexed philosopher
    • v.6 - Science of PE, bks 1-2
    • v.7 - Science of PE, bks 3-7
    • v. 8 - Our Land & Land policy
    • [1911 Fels ed. v.1, v.2, v.3, v.4, v.5 v.6, v.7, v.8, Life v.9 & v.10]
  •   The Law of Human Progress, 1917 [bk] (reprints of chapters of P&P)
  • The Prosperity Paradox: the economic wisdom of Henry George, 2000 (reprints)

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Resources on Henry George (and Georgism)

Contemporary

  • The Standard - Henry George's weekly newspaper, 1887-1892 [Jan 8, 1887-Oct 15, 1887 archived online by RSF]
  • "On Henry George", by Karl Marx, 1881 letter to Sorge
  • "Henry George on Taxation", by John J. Dwyer, 1881, Berkeley Quarterly, v.2, p.210
  • "A German Criticism of Progress and Poverty", Berkeley Quarterly, v.2, p.376  (English trans. of review from ZGS)
  • Progress and Poverty: a review of the doctrines of Henry George, by George Basil Dixwell, 1882 [av]
  • A Critical Examination of Mr. George's "Progress & Poverty" and Mr. Mill's Theory of Wages, by Francis Davy Longe, 1883 [bk]
  • "The Prophet of San Francisco" by the Duke of Argyll, 1884, Nineteenth Century (Apr), p.537
  • The Nationalisation of Land by Basil Smith, MP, 1884 [av]
  • Property and progress; or, A brief inquiry into contemporary social agitation in England by W.H. Mallock, 1884 [bk, av]
  • The Labor Value Fallacy by M.L. Scudder, 1884 [bk, av]
  • A Political Creed, embracing some ascertained truths in sociology and politics: an answer to H. George's Progress and Poverty by G. Manigault, 1884 [av]
  • Progress and Robbery : two American answers to Henry George, the demi-communist by J. Bleecker Miller, 1886 [av] [1887 ed av]
  •  "Review of George's Protection or Free Trade" by George E. Newcomb,1886, PSQ (Jun), p.341 [js]
  • "Where Henry George Stumbled" by Rev. J. Talbot Smith, 1887, Catholic World [moa]
  • George and Democracy, by J.V. Coleman, 1887 [av]
  • The Pope and the New Crusade by "Polybius" [Hugh Flattery], 1887 [av]
  • Socialism and the Church, or, Henry George vs. Archbishop Corrigan, by Willibald Hackner, 1887, [av]
  • The Insufficiency of Henry George's Theory by Laurence Gronlund, 1887 (Jul) [av]
  • Notes on Progress and Poverty: a reply to Henry George by F.L. Tobin, 1887 [av]
  • Work's Dialogue with Henry George by P.M. Sutton, 1887 [av]
  • "Land, Labor and Taxation", by Richard T. Ely, 1887, The Independent (Dec 1, p.1541), Pt.2 (Dec 8, p.1575), Pt. 3 (Dec 15, p.1608), Pt. 4 (Dec 22, p.1647), Pt. 5 (Dec 29), Pt. 6 (Jan 5)
  • "Debate: George vs. the Socialists",  transcript of 1887 debate between Henry George and Serge Schevitch of the Socialist Party.   From The Standard.
  • Henry George versus Henry George: a review by R.C. Rutherford, 1887 [bk, av]
  • Fallacies of Henry George exposed and refuted. The true philosophy of the land question, by Edward A. Higgins, 1887 [av]
  • "L'evolution de Henry George", by Gustave Rouanet, 1887,  La Revue Socialistep.416
  • "Criticisms upon Henry George, re-viewed from the stand-point of justice", by Samuel B. Clarke, 1888, Harvard Law Review, p.265
  • "The Great Debate: The Single Tax versus Social Democracy. Which will most benefit the people?",  transcript of 1889 debate between Henry George and H. M. Hyndman
  • Das Privatgrundeigentum und seine Gegner: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den agrarsozialistischen Theorien von Emile de Laveleye und Henry George by Victor Cathrein  [English 1889 trans. The Champions of Agrarian Socialism: A Refutation of Emile de Laveleye and Henry George, bk]
  • Alluring Absurdities: Fallacies of Henry George by M.W. Meagher, 1889 [bk]
  • "Henry George in Beaten Tracks" by J.W. Sullivan, p.389 and "The Single Tax No Remedy", by E. Montgomery, p.391, 1889, Twentieth Century (Dec 16).
  • "The Single Tax Discussion, held at ASSA, Saratoga, September 5, 1890", (ed. F.B. Sanborn), 1890, Journal of Social Science (Oct, no.27), p.1-124
    • "What the Single Tax of Henry George is" by S.B. Clarke, p.1
    • "The Single Tax", by Thomas Davidson, p.8
    • "Remarks", W.L. Garrison, p.15
    • "Moral Basis of Property in Land", John Bates Clark, p.21
    • "A Single Land Tax from the point of view of Public Finance", by E.B. Andrews, p.29
    • "Address of Prof. Seligman" by E.R.A. Seligman, p.34
    • "Single Tax Platform adopted by the Single Tax League, Sep 3, 1890", p.45
    • Remarks by Louis F. Post (p.48), Edward Atkinson (p.55), Henry George (p.73), Seligman (p.87),  James R. Carret (p.99)
    • "The Single Tax" by W.T. Harris, p.113
    • "Final Remarks" by Edward Atkinson, p.122.
  • "The Single Tax" by CB Spahr, 1891, PSQ (Dec),  p.625 [js]
  • The New Political Economy: The social teaching of Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Henry George by Henry Rose, 1891 [av]
  • Regress and Slavery vs. 'Progress and Poverty', by M.C. Briggs, 1891 [av]
  •  "George, Henry", 1894, National Cyclopedia of American Biography, v.4
  • "George, Henry", in J. Conrad et al, (1891-94) Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften [2nd ed, 1898-1901]
  • Outlines of Louis F. Post's Lectures on the Single Tax, &tc., by Louis F Post, 1894 [bk], [1899 ed, re-titled Single Tax, bk] [1915 ed. re-titled Taxation of Land Value,  bk, av]
  • "A Letter to Henry George" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896
  • Addresses at the Funeral of Henry George, Sunday October 31, 1897, ed. by Edmund Yardley and Henry George Jr,  1897 [bk, av]
  • A Correspondence between an Amateur and a Professor of Political Economy: two letters from the amateur urging a professor in the University of California to study "Progress and poverty" : the professor's reply : and a final effort by the amateur, ed. T.H. Benton de Witt, 1898 [av]
  • The True Basis of Economics; or, The law of independent and collective human life; being a correspondence between David Starr Jordan and Dr. J. H. Stallard on the merits of the doctrine of Henry George, 1899 [av]
  • The Life of Henry George by Henry George Jr, 1900 [bk], [1911 ed. 1st & 2nd, 3rd], [1930 ed, av]
  • Who are the Criminals? by Henry George Jr, 1901 [bk]
  • The Philosophy of Henry George by H.J. Cantwell, 1901 [av]
  • History of Socialism in the United States by Morris Hillquit, 1903 [bk]
  • "Jefferson and the Land Question", by Henry George Jr., 1904, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, v.16,(p.i) [rsf]
  • The Prophet of San Francisco, Louis F. Post, 1904 [bk]
  • The Menace of Privilege by Henry George Jr., 1905 [bk]
  • Henry George and His Gospel, by D.C. Pedder, 1908 [bk]
  • The Economics of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, dissertation by E.H. Johnson, 1910 [bk, av]
  • The Case Plainly Stated by H.F. Ring. [av]
  • "Free Trade and the Single Tax vs. Imperialism: A Letter to Andrew Carnegie", by Joseph Fels, 1910
  • "George, Henry", in 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • "What the Single Tax Is Doing" by Henry George Jr., 1912
  • Thirty Years of Henry George, 1913 (Fillebrown pamphlet) [av]
  • Henry George and the Economists, 1914  (Fillebrown pamphlet) [av]
  • The Singletax and the Labor Movement, dissertation by Peter Alexander Speek, 1915 [bk]
  • The Single Tax Movement in the United States, 1916,  by Arthur Nichols Young [bk]
  • Singletax and its Cleveland champions, 1916 [av]
  • Henry George and the Single Tax: a catalogue of the collection in the New York Public Library by Rolling Alger Sawyer, 1926 [av]

Modern

  • "Henry George and the Single Tax" by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1926, excerpted from Individual Liberty
  • "A Democratic Economics -- Henry George" by Vernon Louis Parrington, 1927, Main Currents in American Thought
  • "Henry George: Unorthodox American" by Albert Jay Nock, 1934, Scribner's Magazine
  • "Albert Jay Nock" by Will Lissner, 1934
  • "The Henry George School of Social Science", by Lancaster Greene, 1936, 
  • "An Arithmetical Approach to the Georgist Philosophy" by Harry Gunnison Brown, 1957, Henry George News
  • "Can Our Republic Survive?" by Edward C. Harwood, 1960, Henry George News
  • "The Time Has Come to Reconsider the Tax Theories of Henry George" by Raymond Moley, 1960, Los Angeles Times
  • "On Henry George: A letter" by Milton Friedman, 1970 
  • "Struggle for Progress" by Frank Goble, 1974
  • "The Science of Henry George" by Robert Clancy, 1991, Georgist Journal
  • "Geoism and the Practice of Public Economics", 1997, Edward H. Clarke
  • "Land Tax" by Mason Gaffney, 1987, New Palgrave
  • "The Neo-Classical Strategem" by Mason Gaffney, from Corruption of Economics, 1994
  • "Henry George, Father Edward McGlynn and Pope Leo XIII" by Mason Gaffney, 1997
  • "Why Taxes Ultimately Fall on Rental Income" by Roger Sandilands, 1985, Land and Liberty
  • "Land and Markets" by Edward .J. Dodson, 1992, Georgist Journal
  • "On the Importance of Classical Political Economy" (relative to Henry George), discussion moderated by E.J. Dodson, 1994
  • "Henry George's Resurrection of the Science of Political Economy" by Edward J. Dodson, 1996
  • "Henry George's Influence on the Life and Work of Leo Tolstoy", by Edward .J. Dodson, 1999
  • "The Influence of Henry George on the Cherokee Nation", by Ray E. Harrell, 1998, Land Theory
  • "Henry George's Theory of Value" by Jack Schwartzman, 1997, Fragments
  • "On Adam Smith: A Georgist Perpsective" by Nicolaus Tideman, 1997,
  • "Classical Analysis of Political Economy" by Harry Pollard, 1973, Henry George News
  • "The Road to Georgism" by Harry Pollard, 1998, Land Theory
  • "Is Henry George's Political Economy Scientific?", by Harry Pollard, 1999, Land Theory
  • "Estimating Land Values", by Ted Gwartney, July 1999 [hgo]
  • "A Georgist Index of Economic Liberation", by David Hillary, 1999
  • "Mark Twain and the Single Tax Movement", by Jim Zwick
  • Biography of Henry George by Mark Hassed
  • "Henry George: Antiprotectionist Giant of American Economics" by Robert Formiani, Econ Insights (FRB Dallas) [pdf]
  • "The Singular Henry George: insights and influence" by A. D'Amiato, 2014 [blg]

Modern Georgist institutions

  • Robert Schalkenbach Foundation [site]
  • Henry George Birthplace, Archive and Historical Center [site]
  • The Henry George Institute website [site]
  • The School of Cooperative Individualism website [site]
  • Henry George School of Social Science (NY) [site]
  • Center for the Study of Economics (Philadelphia) [site]
  • Henry George School (Chicago) [site]
  • Fairhope, Alabama (Georgist colony est. 1894) website [site]
  • Henry George Foundation (UK) [site]
  • Land Value Taxation campaign (UK) [site]
  • Henry George Foundation in Australia. [site]
  • Prosper Australia [site]

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