| Description |
xiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction : overview of the lecture tour and biographical background -- Administration of the tour -- Challenges to public debates -- Biographical background -- Appearance -- Eloquence and platform manner -- George and the churches -- Summary of the itinerary -- Part 1. Henry George's lecture tour in Australia -- 1. New South Wales : 6 March - 24 March -- 2. Victoria : 25 March - 8 April -- 3. New South Wales : 9 April - 16 April -- 4. South Australia : 17 April - 3 May -- 5. New South Wales : 4 May - 7 May -- 6. Queensland : 8 May - 25 May -- 7. Farewells : from Brisbane to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide : 26 May - 11 June -- Part 2. Australia and Henry George, 1890 and now -- Nature's gifts -- Unearned increments : the caused-by-society argument and the caused-by-nature argument -- The single tax -- Free trade, land rights and the single tax -- International implications -- The right of private property : two principles or one? -- Private property or private possession -- The ethics of income tax : natural resources and human resources -- Land nationalisation or land-value taxation -- Trade unions -- Town planning -- Spending the revenue : collectively or distributively -- Spending the revenue : local versus central government -- Political feasibility of land-value taxation -- Compensation or confiscation -- Realised and unrealised increments : the ability-to-pay problem -- Equal rights to the value of land and other natural resources -- The dispossessed and the disinherited -- Appendix A. Newspapers Consulted -- Appendix B. Biographical Notes -- Appendix C. Single tax conference at Sydney, March 1890 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
George, Henry, 1839-1897 -- Travel -- Australia.
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George, Henry, 1839-1897.
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Land use -- Australia.
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Natural resources -- Australia.
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Lectures and lecturing -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Land tenure -- Australia.
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Social reformers -- United States.
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Lectures and lecturing -- Australia.
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Land value taxation -- Australia.
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Economists -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Australia -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585
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| Author |
Pullen, John.
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| LC no. |
2014472747 |
| ISBN |
9781876861124 paperback |
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