The Land Question

Texts of various writers on the Land Question

  1. by Thomas Paine (1797)
    Agrarian Justice
  2. by Max Hirsch (1911)
    Democracy versus Socialism (1911)
    The Problem of Wealth (No date)
    An Exposure of Socialism (1904)
  3. by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
    A Great Iniquity
  4. by Most Rev. Dr. Thomas Nulty, Bishop of Meath (1881)
    Back to the Land
  5. by Father McGlynn
    Father McGlynn on the Land Question
  6. by James Pollock Kohler (1908)
    About Panics – Hard Times
  7. by Joseph S. Thompson (1937)
    Landlordism
  8. by Winston Churchill
    on Land Monopoly

    Speech made to the House of Commons, 1909
  9. by Frederick Verinder
    My Neighbour’s Landmark (1911)
    Land and Freedom  (1935)
    Is there a cure for unemployment? (1921)
    – Just Basis of Taxation (1907)
  10. by Louis F. Post
    Social Service (1909)
  11. by Thomas G. Shearman:
    Natural Taxation (Introductory, only)
    Natural Taxation (pdf) – (1895-1897)
    Henry George’s mistakes (1889)
  12. by Charles B. Fillebrown (1915)
    Thomas G. Shearman and his Natural Taxation
    The A B C of Taxation / read as pdf
    Principles of Natural Taxation / read as pdf
  13. by John Wheelwright (1898)
    Landlordism: Its Origin and Growth
  14. by Joseph Fels (1910)
    Franklin and Freedom
  15. by William Harbutt Dawson
    The Unearned Increment / read pdf
  16. by Josiah & Ethel Wedgwood (1913)
    The Road to Freedom / read pdf
  17. by Charles Daniel
    Instead of Socialism (1913)
  18. by Thorold Rogers
    The Rent of Land, Ch. XII. (1868)
  19. by John Daily
    Harmony vs. Discord (1900)
  20. by G. Bernard Shaw
    The Basis of Socialism (1889)
  21. By Thomas Malthus
    An Inquiry into the Nature etc. of Rent (1815)
    Principles of Political Economy (1831)
    – Chapter I: Of the definitions of Wealth etc
    – Chapter II: On the Nature, Causes and Measures of Value
    – Chapter III: Of the Rent of Land

Forerunners of Henry George:

  1. The Theory of Human Progression
    by Patrick Edward Dove