Ideologies / Georgism / Henry George
§ The minds · 1839–1897 · United States · Economist & reformer
Henry George
Progress and Poverty
Tax land, free everything else.
Economic+20
SocialistMarket
Governance−48
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+40
TraditionalProgressive
The reformer whose 'Progress and Poverty' became a 19th-century sensation, arguing that the value of land — created by community, not owners — should fund society through a single tax, freeing labour and capital.
social
Progressive reformer of the Gilded Age.
economic
Free markets and free labour, funded by a single tax on land values.
governance
Minimal coercion; the land tax replaces other taxation.
Notable for
- 'Progress and Poverty'
- The single-tax movement
- Land-value taxation
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