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- Title
Henry George and British Socialism.
- Authors
Jones, Peter d'A
- Abstract
Henry George, the American social reformer and Single Tax advocate, had a decisive impact on native British socialism considered apart from the Marxist and revolutionary types imported from the continent. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were hostile critics but the typically English Fabian Society was influenced by George's seminal ideas. The Fabians were especially attracted to two notions: the conception that George gave to the thought of his time, that poverty was an evil preventable by political intervention-by State action; and that the disparity in incomes could be explained by the theory of unearned increment In turn Sydney Olivier, George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, Annie Besant, H. G Wells and E. R Pease came under the influence of George. Soon to affect the Fabians, however, was the development of the economist, P. H Wicksteed, beyond George to Jevons and Marginalism. Key figures in the Parliamentary and independent Labour parties almost achieved land value taxation.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; GEORGE, Henry, 1839-1897; SOCIALISM; MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; ENGELS, Friedrich, 1820-1895; SINGLE tax; REAL property tax
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1988, Vol 47, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1988.tb02078.x