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	Henry George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In it George made the argument that nearly all of the wealth created by social and technological advances in a free market economy is captured by land owners and monopolists via economic rents, and that this concentration of unearned wealth is the root cause of poverty.
		George considered it a great injustice to restrict a man from using natural resources, and believed such restrictions were equivalent to slavery, a concept known as wage slavery.
		Henry George's popularity declined in the 20th century; however, there are still many Georgist organisations in existence, and many people who do remain famous were heavily influenced by him, such as George Bernard Shaw, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Yat Sen, Herbert Simon [2], and David Lloyd George.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_George (1222 words)

	George Henry Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870), the "Rock of Chickamauga", was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War.
		Thomas succeeded Rosecrans in command of the Army of the Cumberland shortly before the Battle of Chattanooga (November 23–25, 1863), a stunning Union victory that was highlighted by Thomas's troops rushing forward to storm the daunting defensive line on Missionary Ridge.
		to Major-General George H. Thomas and the officers and soldiers under his command for their skill and dauntless courage, by which the rebel army under General Hood was signally defeated and driven from the state of Tennessee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Henry_Thomas (1716 words)

	Henry George: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George considered it a great injustice to restrict a man from using natural resources, and believed such restrictions were equivalent to slavery (The practice of owning slaves), a concept known as wage slavery (additional info and facts about wage slavery).
		In 1886 George ran for mayor of New York, and polled second (ahead of Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration; said `Speak softly but carry a big stick' (1858-1919))).
		Henry George was familiar with the work of Karl Marx (Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)) – and predicted that if Marx's ideas were tried the likely result would be a dictatorship.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henry_george.htm (896 words)

	George, Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George’s experience in a number of trades, his desperate poverty while supporting a family, and the examples of financial rapacity that came to his attention as wage earner and newspaperman gave impetus to his reformist tendencies.
		George believed that an increase in poverty accompanied and even surpassed the increase in national wealth.
		He believed that the answer to this seeming paradox lay in the fact that the rental of land and the unearned increase in land values profited a few individuals rather than the community whose existence made the land valuable.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ge/GeorgH.html (404 words)

	Henry George, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Henry George is best remembered as a proponent of the "single tax" on land.
		Henry George's proposed tax on one piece of land, is, in effect, based on the improvements to the neighboring land.
		George's argument also assumes that in setting taxes, the government can separate the raw value of land from the value of its improvements—a difficult, if not impossible, task, especially for a politically motivated government.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/George.html (714 words)

	NYPL, Henry George Papers, 1840s-1950
		Henry George, printer-journalist, political economist, and reformer, was the most important and influential radical theorist of nineteenth century America.
		The respect and affection felt for Henry George were demonstrated in the funeral ceremonies, in which more than a hundred thousand people viewed his body and joined the procession to the burial site in Brooklyn, and in the outpouring of written tributes from around the world.
		Henry George's letters to his wife, Annie Fox George, and elder son, Henry George, Jr., are included here; their letters to him are in Series VI (Family Papers).
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/george.html (2674 words)

	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: The Legacy & Works of Henry George CD-ROM
		Henry George was born on September 2, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died on October 27, 1897.
		One of Henry George's most significant contributions to economic thought was his idea that the rental value of land should be taxed as a way of generating revenue to benefit the community at large, rather than the individual private landowner.
		George explores the causes and cures of one of the great paradoxes of his time-persistent poverty in the midst of increasing economic and social development.
	www.lincolninst.edu /education/henrygeorge.asp (992 words)

	Biography of Henry George by Agnes George de Mille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George was translated into almost every language that knew print, and some of the greatest, most influential thinkers of his time paid tribute.
		Henry George was a lucid voice, direct and bold, that pointed out basic truths, that cut through the confusion which developed like rot.
		Agnes George de Mille was the granddaughter of Henry George.
	www.schalkenbach.org /library/demillebio.html (1593 words)

	Vernon Louis Parrington / Henry George
		George Henry Evans, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Parke Godwin, Wendell Phillips, Albert Brisbane, Hinton R. Helper, "Coin" Harvey, were only a few out of the many who in their own way were seeking in economics a road to freedom.
		Henry George is readily enough explained in the light of his environment.
		Henry George was well aware how deeply rooted in American psychology was the love of unearned increment.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /parrington_henry_george.html (3812 words)

	Henry George
		Henry George was born in Philadelphia in 1839.
		George was a crusading reporter who was later to have a considerable influence on a generation of investigative journalists such as Benjamin Flower, Frank Norris, Ida Tarbell, Charles Edward Russell, Lincoln Steffens, David Graham Phillips, C.
		In these two books George argued that the gap between the rich and the poor could only be closed by replacing the various taxes levied on labour and capital with a single tax on the value of property.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jgeorge.htm (694 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry George was born in Philadelphia on 2 September, 1839 and was the second of ten children of Richard and Catherine (Vallance) George.
		Henry George died, possibly from a stroke, in the early morning of 29 October 1897 just four days before the mayoral election having spoken at several meetings the previous evening.
		Henry’s eldest son, Henry George Jr, continued the campaign on his father’s behalf but was soundly defeated, gaining only 22,000 votes.
	www.taxreform.com.au /HG/bio.htm (1132 words)

	Henry George
		Henry George died on Oct 27, 1897, in the middle of his second campaign to become Mayor of New York City.
		George was generally seen as a socialist, and his approach was seen as an alternative to Marxian socialism.
		Henry George's ideas were one of the streams that led to the creation of the British Labour Party and the CCF in Canada.
	inord.laurentian.ca /6_02/Henry_George.htm (2471 words)

	HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(1811-1898), English scholar and divine, eldest son of the Rev. Henry George Liddell, younger brother of the first Baron Ravensworth, was born at Binchester, near Bishop Auckland, on the 6th of February 1811.
		Coming just at the transition period when the " old Christ Church," which Pusey strove so hard to preserve, was inevitably becoming broader and more liberal, it was chiefly due to Liddell that necessary changes were effected with the minimum of friction.
		LIDDESDALE, the valley of Liddel Water, Roxburghshire, Scotland, extending in a south-westerly direction from the vicinity of Peel Fell to the Esk, a distance of 21 m.
	33.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LIDDELL_HENRY_GEORGE.htm (815 words)

	Henry George
		Born in Philadelphia and largely self-educated, Henry George was a sailor and a printer before finding himself in antebellum California.
		George argued that the land belonged to society, which created its value and properly taxed that value, not improvements on the land.
		George's ideas are sustained by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, New York and its American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Quad/6460/bio/G/eorge.html (310 words)

	Read about Henry George at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Henry George and learn about Henry George here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New York George was struck by the apparent paradox that the poor in that long-established city were much worse off than the poor in less developed California.
		Open Source movement, George was highly critical of restrictive patents and copyrights.
		Milton Friedman admit that Henry George's Land tax is potentially beneficial because, unlike other taxes, land taxes tend not to affect the prices of consumer products.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Henry_George (944 words)

	Henry George School of Social Science / Biography of Henry George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George's interest in world events and history sent him to the library and an intense period studying the works of the great political economists.
		George eventually made several trips to Ireland, Scotland and England, where he lectured extensively and became the catalyst for a new political movement to bring an end to land monopoly and remove barriers to trade.
		Along the way, George was twice nominated by his supporters to run for the office of mayor of the City of New York.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Atrium/6791/hgsbiography.html (587 words)

	Karl Marx / On Henry George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George does not seem, for the rest, to know anything about the history of the early American anti-renters,** who were rather practical men than theoretical.
		In saying this I have in mind mainly George, for whom almost as much enthusiasm was shown at one time in England as for the person and doctrines of Rousseau in the 18th century.
		Marx was almost the first to notice that the teaching of the author of Progress and Poverty repeated the physiocrats' views on agriculture as the only source of net income and on the uniform agricultural tax as liable to absorb the greater part of the rent to the benefit of the state.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /marx_henrygeorge.html (727 words)

	Henry George - Writing of the all time best selling author in the field of economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry George was a hugely popular social philosopher in the late 19th Century.
		George spelt out how current land ownership laws set up a pyramid society for the rich to live off the poor.
		Henry George was the first economist to demonstrate that taxes based on resources - which he called land tax, or the 'single tax' - produced the greatest prosperity with least adverse effects.
	www.taxreform.com.au /HG/main.htm (292 words)

	A Christ-like Character: A Catholic Priest Champions Henry George
		George are inspired by the same universal love of mankind, the same love of justice, that were taught by the Christ of whom Henry George is the humble worshipper and follower.
		George not to sympathize with all his heart in the cause of Ireland, and, if for no other reason, just because in Ireland the evils of the injustice against which he is fighting have reached their worst results in squalor, poverty, and starvation.
		George’s doctrines as theologically and morally unsound, the cardinal assured him that such men were unwise and unauthorized critics.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5320 (1095 words)

	All Hail Free Trade (and Henry George) - Mises Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George’s book may be over one hundred years old, but his arguments against protectionism and for free trade are both fresh and applicable to the trade debates today.
		George considers one of the strengths of free trade to be that it "may be carried into practice to the point of ideal perfection" (p.
		George’s conclusion is that "it is not merely that the ideal perfection with which the freetrade theory may be reduced to practice is impossible in the case of protection, but that even a rough approximation to the protective theory is impossible.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.aspx?control=1592 (4090 words)

	Henry George and the Single Tax
		George came to understand -- as had many before him -- that the solution had to do with the ownership of land.
		George's health was starting to deteriorate at this time, and he had to choose between finishing his latest book, The Science of Political Economy, or entering a rigorous campaign against his doctor's wishes.
		In addition to being a mathematics teacher at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, he is a teacher of economics at the Philadelphia branch of the Henry George School of Social Science, Arden DE campus.
	www.henrygeorge.org /denigris.htm (3405 words)

	Henry George Riley
		Henry George Riley purchased 1 hat (15/6), 1 tie (4/9), 3 collars (4/8), 1 brace (4/9), 1 brace (9/6), 1 brace (8/11) (a total of £2.7.5) from Wilson's in Brisbane St., Launceston.
		Henry George Riley purchased 1 coat (£5.15.0) and 2 collars (3/6) (a total of £5 18.6) from Wilson's in Brisbane St., Launceston.
		Henry Riley paid £50 for a block of land to the north of the Church of England in Winnaleah.
	members.iinet.net.au /~kshepher/shepherd/456.html (883 words)

	Mayoral campaign of Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt Association
		In this book George argued that rent is robbery; that wealth is the product of labor applied to natural resources; that interest is the part of the result of labor that is paid to capital; and that capital is the fruit of labor, not its master.
		George rejected the offer and then charged that Hewitt was a captive of Tammany.
		Second-place Henry George complained that he had been cheated out of the mayor's office by Tammany trickery.
	www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/mayor.htm (791 words)

	Encyclopedia: George Henry Thomas
		At the Battle of Peachtree Creek (July 20, 1864) Thomas' defense severely damaged John B. Hood's army in its first attempt to break the siege of Atlanta.
		Thomas was in chief command of only two battles in the Civil War, the Battle of Mill Springs at the beginning and the Battle of Nashville near the end.
		General George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 - March 28, 1870), Northern general during the American Civil War, was born in Southampton county, Virginia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Henry-Thomas (2880 words)

	PopPolitics.com - George W as Henry V? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like Bush, Henry V was mocked by his foes as too weak and soft to fight.
		After Henry's declaration "I thought upon one pair of English legs did march three Frenchmen," the audience rioted, because the line "was interpreted as propaganda in favor of aristocratic England against revolutionary France," according to Lawrence Levine's account in his book Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America.
		George Washington himself was taken with the symbols of kingship, preferring the title 'His High Mightiness' and employing kingly iconography in his public appearances.
	www.poppolitics.com /articles/2003-05-01-henryv.shtml (3239 words)

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