history's rehabilitation of America's greatest early economist /
First Statement of Responsibility
Phillip J. Bryson
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 236 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Machine generated contents note: -- 1 Henry George's Pursuit of Knowledge: On Methodology and Methods * 2 The Life and Economics of Henry George 3 Henry George's Theory of Distribution Ch. 3 Appendix 4 Henry George on Free Trade and Protection * 5 Henry George on Land and Land Policy * 6 Henry George and Modern Economics Ch. 6 Appendix
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Henry George was the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists. Without formal education he trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a "single tax" suggestive of the work of the earlier French economistes. Academic economists of his day rejected his work, but it enjoyed great public popularity in the United States, Europe, Australia and other places. He was more widely read than any other early American economist. History has seen his rehabilitation at the hand of modern economists who have reviewed and analyzed his work in great detail. There is much specialized literature on many specific facets and aspects of George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics and of this historic rehabilitation. This brief book attempts to fill that gap"--