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If any figure of the Gilded Age has major relevance on the lives of the working class today - especially those that cannot or struggle to buy a home - it is Henry George. The best-selling author and single tax advocate offered Americans and the world a big idea that could change the way governments tax its people.


Essential Reading:


Christopher William England, Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism (2023).


Recommended Reading:


Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879).


Edward T. O'Donnell, Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (2015).


Phillip J. Bryson, The Economics of Henry George: History's Rehabilitation of America's Greatest Early Economist (2011).


Mary M. Cleveland, \"The Economics of Henry George: A Review Essay,\" The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 71, no. 2 (April 2012): 498-511.


Ramesh Chandra, \"Allyn Young on Henry George and the Single Tax,\" Review of Political Economy 34, no. 4 (December 2022): 766-88.

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