People from a wide range of points of view have embraced Henry George’s ideas over the years.
What follows is a collection of short pieces:
William F. Buckley “Firing Line” transcripts –
FIRING LINE: For Central America: A Radical Prescription
FIRING LINE: Has New York Let Us Down?
William F. Buckley, in an interview with Brian Lamb, C-Span Book Notes, April 2000
Henry George and the Single-Tax
William F. Buckley – Home, Dear Home (2005) –
RealClearPolitics Commentary
Michael Kinsley – George on My Mind (1989)
From the New York Post, 24 October, 1989
Michael Kinsley – The Obscure Economist Silicon Valley Billionaires Should Dump Ayn Rand For
From Vanity Fair, October, 2017
John Dewey — An Appreciation of Henry George,
The introduction to a 1928 book entitled “Significant Paragraphs from Progress and Poverty” (38 pages)
Jill Lepore – Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1
NY Times Opinion, October, 2011
Peter Orzag — To Fight Inequality, Tax Land
Bloomberg.com Opinion Article, March, 2015
The Economist — Why Henry George Had a Point (2015)
Economist.com, April, 2015
Noah Smith — Piketty’s Three Big Mistakes (2015)
Bloomberg.com Opinion Article, March, 2015
Tim Worstall — Contra Piketty It’s Not a Wealth Tax We Need But a Land Value Tax (2015)
Forbes.com Opinion Article, March, 2015
Fred E. Foldvary – The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land Rent
- In Brief: “The Ultimate Tax Reform” paired with “How to Implement Land-Value Taxation”
2 page document - “The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land Rent”
4 page summary - “The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land Rent”
36 page policy study
Chrystia Freeland — The Problem of Plutocrats: What a 19th-Century Economist Can Teach Us About Today’s Capitalism
Huffington Post, December, 2012
Edward T. O’Donnell — Why Henry George Matters
Oxford University Press Blog, November, 2015
Richard Florida: The Real Role of Land Values in the United States
Bloomberg CityLab, April, 2015
Richard Florida: Fixing the New Urban Crisis
Bloomberg CityLab, May, 2017
Richard Florida: The Staggering Value of Urban Land
Bloomberg CityLab, November, 2017
Richard Florida: What’s Manhattan’s Land Worth? Try ‘Canada’s Entire GDP,
Bloomberg CityLab, April, 2018
Glen Weyl: “The Very Structure of Capitalism is Inherently Monopolistic”
Promarket.org, May, 2018
Eric Posner and Glen Weyl: The Real Villain Behind Our New Gilded Age
New York Times Opinion Article, May, 2018
Mark J. Perry: Henry George: The Man Who Wrote Milton Friedman’s Favorite Book on Trade
The Foundation for Economic Education, October, 2018
Jim Powell: Milton Friedman’s Favorite Book on Trade (2016),
WSJ.com, June, 2016
Milton Friedman: Good Wealth, Bad Wealth (1981),
Newsweek, p. 58, August, 1981
Milton Friedman, on taxing land values (1978),
https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collections/2016c21/AEL_1978.pdf
J. W. Bengough — “A Poem of Political Economy” and “Restitution”
From The Collected Works of Milton Friedman
Lizzie Magie — The Landlord’s Game (1902)
A Description of the Game
Here are some longer articles:
Weld Carter, An Introduction to Henry George:
WealthandWant.com
Robert Andelson — Henry George and the Reconstruction of Capitalism
Essay from 1994
Gems from George: The Economics and Philosophy of Henry George (1839-1897): Being Memorable Passages from His Writings and Addresses —
WealthandWant.com
Clarence Darrow, Henry George
Address at the Henry George Anniversary Dinner of the Single Tax Club, 1913
Nic Tideman, Peace, Justice and Economic Reform
From The 1997 Henry George Lecture
Harry Gunnison Brown’s Significant Paragraphs from Progress and Poverty by Henry George
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