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Henry George

1839 - 1897

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Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. George famously argued that a single tax on land values would create a more productive and just society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry George is the 175th most popular economist (down from 166th in 2019), the 2,894th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,447th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Henry George ranks 175 out of 414. Before him are Raymond Barre, Oskar R. Lange, Robert B. Wilson, Michał Kalecki, Harriet Martineau, and Henry Sidgwick. After him are Jim Rogers, Oliver Hart, Piero Sraffa, Eli Heckscher, János Kornai, and Wilhelm Röpke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Henry George ranks 28. Before him are Konstantin Makovsky, Floriano Peixoto, August Kundt, Yoshitoshi, Karl Alfred von Zittel, and George Mary Searle. After him are Harry Seeley, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Francis Garnier, Gaston Paris, Ivan Goremykin, and Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria. Among people deceased in 1897, Henry George ranks 30. Before him are Minna Canth, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Léon Boëllmann, Stanislas de Guaita, and Alexei Savrasov. After him are Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Fritz Müller, Henri Meilhac, Viktor Meyer, Effie Gray, and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry George ranks 2,894 out of 20,380. Before him are Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Brad Davis (1949), Adam Goldberg (1970), William Moulton Marston (1893), and Jimmy Ellis (1940). After him are Barbara Bain (1931), Jim Abrahams (1944), Wendell R. Anderson (1933), George Allen (1952), Ross Bagdasarian (1919), and Oscar Robertson (1938).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Henry George ranks 59. Before him are Eric Maskin (1950), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Daniel McFadden (1937), Greg Mankiw (1958), Robert C. Merton (1944), and Robert B. Wilson (1937). After him are Jim Rogers (1942), Peter Navarro (1949), Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Benjamin Tucker (1854), John Bates Clark (1847), and Alvin Hansen (1887).

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