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- Title
Jane Jacobs on Henry George: Progress or Poverty?
- Authors
Ikeda, Sanford
- Abstract
Henry George and Jane Jacobs each have devoted followers today who remain mainly outside the intellectual mainstream, both are iconic American intellectuals largely sympathetic to and quite knowledgeable about how markets work, and they each challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxies of their day. Much has been written, pro and con, on George's single tax and on Jacobs's battles with urban planners, and while I don't directly address either here, what I say does have implications for those controversies. In particular, I show how and why their views on the nature of economic progress, and of cities in that progress, fundamentally differ. I trace the difference to George's essentially classical approach to economics in contrast to Jacobs's subjectivist approach, which more radically transcends the economics of her time.
- Subjects
JACOBS, Jane, 1916-2006; GEORGE, Henry, 1839-1897; SINGLE tax; URBAN planning; ECONOMIC development
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 2015, Vol 74, Issue 3, p495
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ajes.12107