The year before he died he ran for mayor of New York City as an independent democrat, and published The Science of Political Economy.
The year before he died he ran for mayor of New York City as an independent democrat, and published The Science of Political Economy. It was during his stint as a cabin boy and his travels to poor countries such as Australia and India that he became interested in money and its effects on people. He first gained attention with a pamphlet called Our Land and Land Policy in which he argued that the boom in the American West did more harm than good. To combat this trend he suggested shifting the tax burden from buildings to land, in other words a single tax. FTP, identify this American economist whose idea was expanded in the classic 1879 work Progress and Poverty.
The year before he died he ran for mayor of New York City as an independent democrat, and published The Science of Political Economy.
Henry {George}