The Land Question: Viewpoint and Counterviewpoint on the Need for Land Reform [Three works in one volume: The Irish Land Question; Property in Land; The Condition of Labor]

by Henry George

Henry George challenges British philosopher Herbert Spencer's deletion of the Social Statics chapter, The Right to the Use of the Earth. George includes this controversial chapter in which Spencer supports equal liberty and contrasts it to Spencer's later writings in support of Social Darwinism.

Genres: Economics, Nonfiction

342 pages, Hardcover

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.