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- Title
Malthus and George on the Irish Question The Single Tax, Empiricism and Other Positions Shared by the 19th Century Economists.
- Authors
MacDowell, Michael A.
- Abstract
Historians of economic thought have painstakingly traced predecessors of Henry George's "single tax" theories. Despite this professional attention, a prime advocate of the single tax on land has been neglected: Thomas R. Malthus, in his early writings in the Edinburgh Review. This exclusion is even more interesting in that Malthus suggested the single land tax for Ireland, a region George covered extensively in his writings. Despite their distance in years Malthus and George showed a number of concerns on issues which faced both their generations. They had similar opinions on general land and tax reform. They expressed a common bent toward empiricism in their research. And they shared an understanding of the stifling effect of religious animosity in Ireland. These common concerns and interests led both men to take controversial positions outside the classical tradition of the period. This led to their partial rejection by fellow economists who supported the status quo.
- Subjects
IRELAND; SINGLE tax; LAND value taxation; GEORGE, Henry, 1839-1897; MALTHUS, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834; EMPIRICAL research
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1977, Vol 36, Issue 4, p401
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article