Jane Jacobs on Henry George
Progress or Poverty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2769673 |
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| Authors | Sanford Ikeda (0000-0002-5812-5098, Ford Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-509 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajes.12107 |
| OpenAlex | W1846540135 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Henry George and Jane Jacobs each have devoted followers today who remain mainly outside the intellectual mainstream, both are iconic American intellectuals largely sympathetic to and quite knowledgeable about how markets work, and they each challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxies of their day. Much has been written, pro and con, on George's single tax and on Jacobs's battles with urban planners, and while I don't directly address either here, what I say does have implications for those controversies. In particular, I show how and why their views on the nature of economic progress, and of cities in that progress, fundamentally differ. I trace the difference to George's essentially classical approach to economics in contrast to Jacobs's subjectivist approach, which more radically transcends the economics of her time
Art history · Economic history · Economics · Epistemology · George (robot) · Law and economics · Mainstream · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Poverty · Sociology · Subjectivism · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Economic Theory and Institutions · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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