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 –
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Buckley-1986-Manuel-Ayau-on-Firing-Line-LVT.pdf
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Buckley-1985-Roger-Starr-on-Firing-Line-LVT.pdf
William F. Buckley, in an interview with Brian Lamb, C-Span Book Notes, April 2000
http://www.cooperative-individualism.org/buckley-william_henry-george-and-the-single-
tax-2000.htm
William F. Buckley – Home, Dear Home (2005) – link to
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-10_19_05_WB.html
Michael Kinsley – George on My Mind (1989)
https://www.cooperative-individualism.org/kinsley-michael_henry-george-on-my-mind-1
989.htm
Michael Kinsley – The Obscure Economist Silicon Valley Billionaires Should Dump Ayn Rand
For (2017, Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/the-obscure-economist-henry-george-ayn-rand
John Dewey — An Appreciation of Henry George,
http://www.cooperative-individualism.org/dewey-john_an-appreciation-of-henry-george-
1927-jan-feb.htm, 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, (1911)
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/heres-the-guy-who-invented-populi sm.html
Peter Orzag — To Fight Inequality, Tax Land — (2015)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-03-03/to-fight-inequality-tax-land
The Economist — Why Henry George Had a Point (2015)
https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2015/04/01/why-henry-george-had-a-point
Noah Smith — Piketty’s Three Big Mistakes (2015)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-03-27/piketty-s-three-big-mistakes-in- inequality-analysis[behind a paywall ]
Tim Worstall — Contra Piketty It’s Not a Wealth Tax We Need But a Land Value Tax (2015), https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/03/27/contra-piketty-its-not-a-wealth-tax- we-need-but-a-land-value-tax/#601dfe9b5430
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 (2012),
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chrystia-freeland/henry-george-capitalism_b_1997899.h tml
Lindy Davies — The Top Ten Reasons Why Land is More Important Than Ever,
http://earthsharing.org/library/the-top-ten-reasons-why-land-is-more-important-than-ever/
Edward T. O’Donnell — Why Henry George Matters (2015),
https://blog.oup.com/2015/11/henry-george-matters/
Richard Florida: The Real Role of Land Values in the United States (2015),
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/04/the-real-role-of-land-values-in-the-united-states
/389862/
Richard Florida: The Difficulties of Density (2016),
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/09/the-difficulties-of-density/499571/ note: does not mention HG
Richard Florida: Fixing the New Urban Crisis (2017),
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/05/fixing-the-new-urban-crisis/521043/
Richard Florida: The Staggering Value of Urban Land (2017)
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/11/the-staggering-value-of-urban-land/544706/
Richard Florida: What’s Manhattan’s Land Worth? Try ‘Canada’s Entire GDP,
https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/04/what-manhattans-land-is-worth/558776/
Glen Weyl: “The Very Structure of Capitalism is Inherently Monopolistic” (2018)
https://promarket.org/glen-weyl-structure-capitalism-inherently-monopolistic/
Eric Posner and Glen Weyl: The Real Villain Behind Our New Gilded Age (2018),
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/monopoly-power-new-gilded-age.html
Mark J. Perry: Henry George: The Man Who Wrote Milton Friedman’s Favorite Book on Trade (2018),
https://fee.org/articles/henry-george-the-man-who-wrote-milton-friedman-s-favorite-book-on-trade/
Jim Powell: Milton Friedman’s Favorite Book on Trade (2016),
http://www.wsj.com/articles/milton-friedmans-favorite-book-on-trade-1465597043
[behind a paywall, but what’s visible is fine!]
Milton Friedman: Good Wealth, Bad Wealth (1981),
http://savingcommunities.org/docs/friedman.milton/goodbadwealth.html
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”
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Bengough-A-Poem-of-Political-Economy-1887-in-Grip.pdf
Lizzie Magie — The Landlord’s Game (1902)
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Landlords-Game1902.pdf
Here are some longer articles
Weld Carter, An Introduction to Henry George:
http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/CarterW_intro.html
Robert Andelson — Henry George and the Reconstruction of Capitalism
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Andelson-reconstruction-of-capitalism.pdf
Gems from George: The Economics and Philosophy of Henry George (1839-1897): Being Memorable Passages from His Writings and Addresses —
http://www.wealthandwant.com/HG/Gems_from_HG.html
Clarence Darrow, Henry George
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Clarence-Darrow-1913-Henry-George-8-pgs.pdf
Nic Tideman, Peace, Justice and Economic Reform (1997) –
http://www.cooperative-individualism.org/tideman-nicolaus_peace-justice-and-economic
-reform-1997-oct.pdf
Harry Gunnison Brown’s Significant Paragraphs from Progress and Poverty by Henry George
https://schalkenbach.org/file-14/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Significant-Paragraphs-from-Progress-and-Poverty-by-Henry-George.pdf
