Tom Cannell's Holiday: A Queensland Tale of Love, Logic, and the Land Tax

TitleTom Cannell's Holiday: A Queensland Tale of Love, Logic, and the Land Tax
Year for Search1899
AuthorsWilkinson, James(1854-1915)
Date Published1899
PublisherRailroad Times Office
Place PublishedIpswich, QLD, Australia
KeywordsAustralian author, Male author
Annotation

Fictional exposition of the tax on land values proposed by Henry George (1839-97) that suggests the eutopia it could produce. For Henry 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.

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Australian author  (1854-1915)

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1899 Wilkinson, James (1854-1915). Tom Cannell’s Holiday: A Queensland Tale of Love, Logic, and the Land Tax. Ipswich, QLD, Australia: Railroad Times Office. M

Fictional exposition of the tax on land values proposed by Henry George (1839-97) that suggests the eutopia it could produce. For Henry 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.