Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice, Critics of Henry George An Appraisal of Their Strictures on Progress and Poverty

by Andelson, Robert V.

• ISBN13: 9781405118309
• ISBN10: 140511830X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Since its publication in 1979, Critics of Henry George has achieved an international reputation as by far the most comprehensive review and analysis of the objections leveled against Henry George's American classic, Progress and Poverty. George's 19th century classic argument for land reform produced an army of critics including Alfred Marshall, J. B. Clark, F. A. Walker and in the 20th century, Edwin Cannan, Murray Rothbard and Mark Blaug. In recent years Georgist insights have been gaining ground in economics on a variety of fronts especially in the areas of the economics of location and public finance. Now, more than a century after George and 25 years after the first edition of the Critics of Henry George, the Critics has been expanded, revised and enlarged by Robert Andelson. The Andelson revision will include a revised last chapter evaluating Georgism as it was interpreted by its critics.

Author Biography

Robert V. Andelson is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Auburn University and is a lifelong philosopher and student of the basic principles of social justice and economic reform, ultimately derived from the ideas of the great American reformer, Henry George. He has served as President of the International Union for Land-Value Taxation and Free Trade.

Table of Contents

Prolegomena

Introduction

The Essential Henry George

Nineteenth-Century British and Continental Critics

Leveleye: A Critic Ripe for Conversion

Marshall: A Professional Economist Guards the Purity of his Discipline

Longe and Wrightson: Conservative Critics of GeorgeÆs Wage Theory

Mallock and the ôMost Elaborate Answerö

MoffatÆs ôUnorthodoxö Critique

CathreinÆs Careless Clerical critique

HuxleyÆs Critique from Social Darwinisim

Rae: A Journalist Out of His Depth

Nineteenth-Century American Critic

Dixwell: Animadversions of an Admiring Adversary

Walker: The General Leads the Charge

Harris and His Anachronistic Attack

Gronlund and Other Marxists

Rutherford: ôThe Devil Quotes Scriptureö

Ingalls, Hasnon, and Tucker: Nineteenth-Century American Anarchists

Atkinson: An Ill-informed Assailant

Clark:Apostle of Two-Factor Economics

Pattern: A Study in Intellectual Dishonesty

Seligman and His Critique from Social Utility

Critics in The Twentieth Century and Beyond

A Cannan Hits the Mark

Davenport: ôSingle Taxer of the Looser Observance

Carver: Reluctant Demi-Georgist

Ryan and His Domestication of Natural Law

AlcazarÆs ôMost Voluminous of All Assaultsö

Ely: A Liberal Economist Defends Landlordism

Knight: Nemesis from the Chicago School

Heath: Estranged Georgist

Hayek: ôAlmost Persuadedö

HardinÆs Putative Critique

Reckoning with Rothbard

LeFevreÆs Challenge

Oser: Reservations of a Friendly Commentator

Blaug: Edging Toward Full Appreciation

Conculsions

Neo-Georgism

Notes on Contributors

Index

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