Henry George on Land Ownership
A Comment on Pullen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2776372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John K Whitaker, John Whitaker (0000-0001-8824-471X, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 557-563 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.1111/1536-7150.00075 |
| OpenAlex | W2141902724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Did George alienate many by presenting his reform program as the institution of a new form of restricted land possession rather than as the retention of traditional ownership with a substantial land tax imposed? It seems doubtful, yet the distinction merits further exploration and the peculiar and hard-to-implement nature of the tax and the difficulty of reconciling it with George's distrust of government needs to be stressed. Ideally, George might have preferred complete government ownership of land but his policy proposals were pragmatically adapted to the realities of his own society. The extent of the egalitarianism and aid to the landless implied in his program is questioned
Distrust · Economics · Egalitarianism · George (robot) · Government (linguistics) · Institution · Land tenure · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics) · Sociology · History · Law · Legal principles and applications · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |