The Land Question What it Involves and How Alone it Can Be Settled

by Henry George

Viewpoint and Counterviewpoint on the Need for Land ReformThis new edition of the 1884 original brings together these important writings of Henry George: his famous essay on the Irish land question, his response to Scottish Duke of Argyll's critique, and his incisive analysis of Pope Leo XIII's influential encyclical, Rerum Novarum. (The full text of papal encyclical is also included.)

Genres: Economics

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Henry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.