Man Abroad: A Yarn of Some Other Century
| Title | Man Abroad: A Yarn of Some Other Century |
| Year for Search | 1887 |
| Date Published | 1887 |
| Publisher | G.W. Dillingham |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | US author |
| Annotation | Mostly satire, but there is a description a community based on the principles, somewhat modified, of Henry George (1839-97), the theorist of the single tax. The modification is that while there is a tax on land no rent is paid to the government which put severe restrictions on what government could do. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976. |
| Info Notes | For George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, PSt, W3,3594 |
| Full Text | 1887 Man Abroad: A Yarn of Some Other Century. Mostly satire, but there is a description a community based on the principles, somewhat modified, of Henry George (1839-97), the theorist of the single tax. The modification is that while there is a tax on land no rent is paid to the government which put severe restrictions on what government could do. For George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. |
