Abstract
Henry George was by turns sailor, prospector, printer, reporter, San Francisco newspaper editor and publisher, orator and political activist before closeting himself to write on political economy. His Progress and Poverty (1879) electrified reformers, catapulted him to fame and began a worldwide movement for land reform and taxation, opening to George an extraordinary career in radical politics. Returning from Ireland as reporter for The Irish World of New York he was lionized by Irish-New Yorkers for his stand on the Irish land question. With ethnic, union and socialist backing he formed the United Labour Party and ran for mayor of New York in 1886, nearly winning.
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Gaffney, M. (2018). George, Henry (1839–1897). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_903
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