Poverty is the open-mouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Henry George

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Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they...

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