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About Henry George
Henry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrial economies, and the use of the land value tax as a possible remedy.
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Henry George's Timeline
| 1839 |
September 2, 1839
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1862 |
November 3, 1862
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Sacramento, CA, United States
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| 1865 |
January 1865
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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| 1867 |
1867
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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| 1877 |
October 2, 1877
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San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
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| 1897 |
October 29, 1897
Age 58
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New York, New York, United States
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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
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