RETHINKING THE ECONOMY LECTURE SERIES
Friday, December 1st, 4-7pm
Simon Fraser University
Segal Centre Room 1430 - Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver)
HENRY GEORGE- Book Launch Vol. II, Progress and Poverty
Second in a series of lectures and discussions on the The Annotated Works
of Henry George (1839-1897), an influential American economist and social
reformer. Presentations by professor Francis Peddle and Brendan Hennigan
(The Henry George Foundation of Canada).
Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty in order to identify and resolve
the great paradox of modern industrial life. How was it possible for abject
poverty, financial instability, and extreme economic inequality to co-exist
with rising productivity and technological progress? He analyzed and
rejected the widely held beliefs that poverty inevitably followed from the
laws of economics or from a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest.
George concluded that at the heart of this dilemma was how society treated
natural resources, especially urban land. He did not succumb to the panacea
of arbitrarily confiscating property or taking from the rich to give to the
poor. George argued that taxes on productive labour should be drastically
reduced.
Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and
economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late
nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879)
captures the ravages if the privileged monopolies and the woes of
industrialization a language of eloquent indignation. His reform
agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and
his impassioned prose and compelling thoughts inspired such diverse
figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill
an Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of the works of Henry
George assembles all his major works for the first time with new
introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material,
and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for
scholars and reformers.
This event also features the launch of the posthumously published
work of Roger Wilson (1933 - 2015) titled Fearann: Canada’s Land
Debacle. Roger Wilson was a lifetime Georgist and keen observer
of the role land plays in our economy. He devoted many years to
cataloguing the peculiarities, often tragic, yet pervasive, of the misuse
of land and corruptions in the land industry. This volume, inspired
by the economic philosophy of Henry George, has been edited, with
an Introduction, by Francis K. Peddle.
The Robert Schalkenbach
Foundation
The Henry
Second in a series of lectures and discussions on the The Annotated Works
of Henry George (1839-1897), an influential American economist and social
reformer. Presentations by professor Francis Peddle and Brendan Hennigan
(The Henry George Foundation of Canada).
Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty in order to identify and resolve
the great paradox of modern industrial life. How was it possible for abject
poverty, financial instability, and extreme economic inequality to co-exist
with rising productivity and technological progress? He analyzed and
rejected the widely held beliefs that poverty inevitably followed from the
laws of economics or from a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest.
George concluded that at the heart of this dilemma was how society treated
natural resources, especially urban land. He did not succumb to the panacea
of arbitrarily confiscating property or taking from the rich to give to the
poor. George argued that taxes on productive labour should be drastically
reduced.
Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and
economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late
nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879)
captures the ravages if the privileged monopolies and the woes of
industrialization a language of eloquent indignation. His reform
agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and
his impassioned prose and compelling thoughts inspired such diverse
figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill
an Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of the works of Henry
George assembles all his major works for the first time with new
introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material,
and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for
scholars and reformers.
This event also features the launch of the posthumously published
work of Roger Wilson (1933 - 2015) titled Fearann: Canada’s Land
Debacle. Roger Wilson was a lifetime Georgist and keen observer
of the role land plays in our economy. He devoted many years to
cataloguing the peculiarities, often tragic, yet pervasive, of the misuse
of land and corruptions in the land industry. This volume, inspired
by the economic philosophy of Henry George, has been edited, with
an Introduction, by Francis K. Peddle.
The Robert Schalkenbach
Foundation
The Henry George
Foundation of Canada