I am interested in Henry George. This is why I reblog this book review.
John D Rockefeller
Classical Economics as a Stratagem Against Henry George (free link)
By Mason Gaffney (2007)
Book Review-Part II
(In Part I, I discuss how Henry George’s work inspired the Populist and Progressive movements of the early 1900s and how the corporate elite struck back by inventing a new type of economics for the rich, called neoclassical economics.)
Who Paid for Neoclassical Economics to Take Over American Universities?
Gaffney’s book traces the phenomenal public support Georgism enjoyed before the tenets of neoclassical economics took hold in American universities. In addition to inspiring the Populist and Progressive movements, an LVT to fund irrigation projects in California’s Central Valley made California the top producing farm state. In 1916 the first federal income tax law was introduced by Georgist members of Congress (Henry George Jr and Warren Bailey) and included virtually no tax on wages. In 1934 Georgist Upton Sinclair was…
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