By P. Bryson
ISBN-10: 0230115853
ISBN-13: 9780230115859
Henry George used to be the best, most famed and such a lot rejected of early American economists. with out formal schooling he expert himself in classical economics and built a conception of a “single tax” suggestive of the paintings of the sooner French ?conomistes. educational economists of his day rejected his paintings, however it loved nice public acceptance within the usa, Europe, Australia and different locations. He was once extra greatly learn than the other early American economist. heritage has obvious his rehabilitation on the hand of recent economists who've reviewed and analyzed his paintings in nice element. there's a lot really good literature on many particular features and points of George’s paintings, yet we lack a booklet which supplies an outline of George’s economics and of this historical rehabilitation. This short e-book makes an attempt to fill that hole.
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He could understand the poverty, the grinding labor, and the hopelessness of so many. The biographer wrote: He himself had climbed out on swaying yards like the commonest man, carried his blankets as a prospector and common miner, felt something of the hardships of farming, 34 ● The Economics of Henry George tramped dusty roads as a pedlar, had every experience as a printer, and suffered the physical and mental tortures of hunger. Learning and pride and power and tradition and precedent went for little with him; the human heart, the moral purpose, became the core thing.
The more I think of it, the more I feel that our present life will not bound our love” (p. 260). Henry Jr. did not dwell excessively on the strong love that bound his parents together, but he did quote from a small number of George’s letters to his beloved wife, revealing his conviction that “Marriage The Life and Economics of Henry George ● 29 is not only the foundation of society,” but it is also that divinely appointed state that can bring the “highest and purest happiness” to people. George did not doubt that if people really understood that they could not separate from each other, “the result would be to make them try harder to live comfortably with each other” (p.
He found it amazing that academics could have devoted years of their lives to learn how to pursue truth, only to refuse to give honest consideration to correct principles when they encountered them. Rather than embracing obvious truths, they circled the intellectual wagons to defend the badly misguided academic consensus. George’s role, as the outsider, was to attempt to instruct them on the fundamentals of their science, having “never seen the inside of a college,” except when trying to teach the professors what they should have already understood.
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