Nature's gifts : the Australian lectures of Henry George on the ownership of land & other natural resources

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    • Pullen, John

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Nature's gifts : the Australian lectures of Henry George on the ownership of land & other natural resources

John Pullen

Desert Pea Press, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and indexes

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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. NatureaEURO (TM)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.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - Henry GeorgeaEURO (TM)s Lecture Tour in Australia 1. New South Wales: 6 March aEURO" 24 March 2. Victoria: 25 March aEURO" 8 April 3. New South Wales: 9 April aEURO" 16 April 4. South Australia: 17 April aEURO" 3 May 5. New South Wales: 4 May aEURO" 7 May 6. Queensland: 8 May aEURO" 25 May 7. Farewells: From Brisbane to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide: 26 May aEURO" 11 June PART 2 - Australia and Henry George, 1890 and Now NatureaEURO (TM)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

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