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George W. Henry was an American psychiatrist who specialized in the study and treatment of homosexuality. He grew up in Oswego, New York, and received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in 1912 and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1916.
Henry George was born on September 2, 1839, in Philadelphia. His father, who came from a Yorkshire family, was a publisher of Protestant Episcopal church and Sunday-school books. His mother was of Scottish and English descent and the daughter of a distinguished engraver.
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce ...
Henry George. 1839-1897. H enry George is best remembered as a proponent of the “single tax” on land. The government should finance all of its projects, he argued, with proceeds from only one tax.
George’s central idea was that a single tax on land values was sufficient to fund the government, and that private appropriation of land’s value was the cause of the persistence of severe poverty even in the richest and most developed cities in the world.
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Henry George wrote the most influential American economic treatise of the 19th century. Entitled Progress and Poverty, and published in 1879, it was translated into 25 languages, outsold Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and inspired H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw to become Socialists.
