Nature's gifts : the Australian lectures of Henry George on the ownership of land & other natural resources / John Pullen
- Bib ID:
- 6607152
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- Book
- Author:
- Pullen, John, author
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- Sydney : Desert Pea Press, 2014
- xiii, 225 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781876861124 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Annotation. In 1890, the famous American economist and social reformer, Henry George, arrived in Australia to begin a controversial 98-day public lecture tour. Following the international publicity generated by his book Progress and Poverty, with its challenges to conventional economics, he had made several lecture tours in Britain, attracting immense audiences. In Australia he visited 34 cities and towns and continued to promulgate vigorously and eloquently his radical program for the ownership, management and taxation of natural resources such as land, coal, and minerals. NATURE'S GIFTS provides, for the first time, a detailed account of this important and progressive lecture series. Equal rights to land; land taxation; land prices; land rents; land nationalisation; and free trade and protection remain issues which are highly relevant today. Engaging and insightful, this is a timely and critical study of the reforms proposed by Henry George and the possibility of establishing an efficient and equitable system for the ownership of natural resources.
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- Desert Pea Press an imprint of the Federation Press
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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