Our land and land policy : speeches, lectures, and miscellaneous writings / by Henry George ; edited by Kenneth C. Wenzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Henry, 1839-1897.

Contributor:

Wenzer, Kenneth C., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--United States.

Public lands.

Public lands--California.

Land tenure--United States.

Land tenure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Our land & land policy

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Even before the publication of Progress and Poverty in 1879, San Francisco political economist and publisher Henry George (1839-1897) had written extensively about what he considered to be the causes for worldwide economic inequity-land monopolization and speculation by wealthy entrepreneurs and corrupt politicians. But his attacks on these evils were coupled with a plan for a possible brighter future, for a world in which disparities between people of different classes could be adjusted. By the time he died in 1897, his assessments of liberal 19th-century economic theory were critically accl

Contents:

Contents; Prefatory Note; Preface to the 1999 Edition; Our Land and Land Policy ; The Lands of the United States ; The Lands of California ; Land and Labour; The Tendency of Our Present Land Policy; What Our Land Policy Should Be; The Study of Political Economy; The American Republic; The Crime of Poverty; Land and Taxation; "Thou Shalt Not Steal" ; To Workingmen; "Thy Kingdom Come"; Justice the Object-Taxation the Means; Causes of the Business Depression; Peace by Standing Army; Editor's Notes

Notes:

Originally published: San Francisco : White & Bauer, 1871.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-62895-203-2

0-87013-918-5

OCLC:

774285363