Bøker av Henry George

This book was first published in the early part of 1881, under the title of The Irish Land Question. In order better to indicate the general character of this subject, and to conform to the title under which it had been republished in other countries, the title was subsequently change to The Land Question. Henry George (1839-1897) was a U.S. economist and advocate of the single tax.

Henry George (1839-97) was an American journalist and newspaper editor. In Progress and Poverty, his most famous work (1879), he seeks to explain the apparent paradox that the gulf between rich and poor in a developed city (or nation) is much less that that in a less developed community: 'Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege.' His economic ideas were widely debated, and this volume also contains a response to the 1881 English edition of the book from Isaac B. Cooke, a cotton broker from Liverpool, and Andrew Mearns's The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883), a short but telling description of the reality of the poverty then to be found in the world's richest city.