Henry george economist biography definition

Henry George, American economist and social philosopher (b. Philadelphia , d. New York ).

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Principal works: The Science of Political Economy, Progress & Poverty, Protection or Free Trade, The Condition of Labor, A Perplexed Philosopher, Social Problems.

Henry George is a product of America. His contribution to modern economic thought grew out of the experience of America&#;its freedom of opportunity, its incentives for invention and production, its march of material progress.

In the frontier West &#; in San Francisco &#; where Henry George rose as a young man from typesetter to editor and publisher, he saw the workings of economic forces in the raw.

And he studied them. He made America his economics laboratory in which he formulated a philosophy of freedom indigenous to America and an answer to the collectivist theories of old world.

The cultural heritage of Henry George is broad.

He drew upon the experience of every race and every civilization to disc