Henry George

Henry George (2 September 1839–29 October 1897) was a journalist and American political economist who was born in Philadelphia, but settled in California in his teens. After failed attempts at gold mining, he ended up in the newspaper industry, where he developed his exceptional talents for writing and analyzing political economy. He had no formal training in economics, in spite of his many superb books on the topic. It was during a trip to New York that George noticed a strange paradox: the poor in New York City seemed to be far less enabled than the poor back home in lesser-developed California.

Henry George's perplexity over this paradox led to his first book, Progress and Poverty, in 1879. This book became a huge seller, earning him enormous praise and international fame.

Links

 * Henry George Literature Archive at the Mises Institute
 * All Hail Free Trade (and Henry George) by Laurence M. Vance, August 2004
 * Murray Rothbard and Henry George by David J. Heinrich, February 2004