Blaug, Mark - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 7 (2000) 2, pp. 270-288
Henry George's Progress and Poverty (1879) was undoubtedly the most widely read book on economics in the nineteenth century. Its proposal for a 'single tax' on land rents inspired both socialists and liberal reformers in the closing decades of the nineteenth century but it was attacked and...