Compiled by: L. Heckman
Introduction
Books by and about Henry George may be found listed in the
Libraries’
catalog. For books by Henry George, do an author search,
“george, henry” or click on subject search and type in “george,
henry” to locate books about Henry George. Materials listed
here represent items on both the Queens and Staten Island
campuses.
The following items are representative samples from the
Libraries’ collection.
Circulating Books
By Henry George:
George, Henry. An Anthology of Henry George’s
Thought. Edited by Kenneth C. Wenzer. Rochester, N.Y.:
University of Rochester Press, 1997. (HB 119 G4 A25 1997)
George, Henry. The Economics and Philosophy of Henry
George, 1839-189, Being Memorable Passages from His Writings and
Addresses. Selected and arranged by A. C. Auchmuty, with a
forward by Fred Harrison. 5th ed. New York: Land and Liberty Press,
1980. (HF 1755 G355 E23 1980)*
George, Henry. Henry George: Collected Journalistic
Writings. Kenneth C. Wenzer, editor. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.
Sharpe, 2003. 4 volumes (HB 119 G4 A3 2003).*
George, Henry. The Life of Henry George. New
York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1960. (HB 119 G4 G4
1960)*
George, Henry. A Perplexed Philosopher, being an
examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Various Utterances on the Land
Question, with some Incidental Reference to his Synthetic
Philosophy. New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1965
c1892. (HD 1311 P4 1965)
George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the
Cause of Industrial Depressions and the Increase of
Want with the Increase of Wealth…The Remedy. New York: Robert
Schalkenbach Foundation, 1979. (HB 171 G27 1979)
George, Henry. The Science of Political
Economy. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904, c1897. (HB 171
G33 1904)
George, Henry. Social Problems. New York:
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1953 (HB 171 G37 1953)
About Henry George:
Barker, Charles Albro. Henry George. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1955. (HB 119 G4 B3)*
Cord, Steven B. Henry George: Dreamer or
Realist? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1965. (HB 119 G4 C65)*
The Critics of Henry George: A Centenary Appraisal of
their Strictures on Progress and Poverty. Rutherford,
N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979. (HB 171 G3
C74)*
Geiger, George Raymond. The Philosophy of Henry
George. New York: Macmillan, 1933. (HB 119 G4 G35
1933)*
George and the Scholars: A Century of Scientific
Research Reveals the Reformer was an Original Economist and a
World-Class Social Philosopher. Edited, with introductions
by, Will Lissner and Dorothy Burnham Lissner. New York: Robert
Schalkenbach Foundation, 1991. (HB 119 G4 G46 1991)*
DeMille, Anna Angela (George). Henry George: Citizen of
the World. University of North Carolina Press, 1950. (HB
119 G4 D4)
Hellman, Rhoda. Henry George Reconsidered. New
York: Carlton Press, 1987. (HB 119 G4 H45 1987)*
Henry George and Contemporary Economic
Development. Edited by Stephen R. Lewis, Jr.
Lawrence, Elwood Parsons. Henry George in the British
Isles. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press,
1957, (HB 171 G4 L3)
Nock, Albert Jay. Henry George: An Essay. New
York: Morrow, 1939. (HB 119 G4 N6)*
The Path to Justice: Following in the Footsteps of Henry
George. Edited by Joseph A. Giacalone and Clifford
W. Cobb; forward by Joseph A. Giacalone. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell,
2001. (HB 119 G46 P38 2001)
Post, Louis Freeland. Henry George’s 1886 Campaign: An
Account of the George-Hewitt Campaign in the New York Municipal
Election of 1886. New York: Henry George School, 1961. (F
128.47 F87 1961)*
Rose, Edward J. Henry George. New York: Twayne
Publishers, 1968. (HB 119 G4 L8)
Silagi, Michael. Henry George and Europe: The
Far-Reaching Impact and Effect of Ideas of the American Social
Philosopher. New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation,
2000. (HD 1313 S39313 2000)*
Thomas, John L. Alternative America: Henry George,
Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary
Tradition. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press, 1983.
(HN 57 T48 1983)*
Periodicals
This is a selective list to which the Queens and/or Staten
Island Libraries subscribe and that contain articles relevant to
this topic. Please note that some periodical titles are available
in electronic full-text format (see Full Text
eJournals).
- American Economic Review
- American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science
- Economic Development and Cultural Change
- Economic History Review
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Journal of Political Economy
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
Online Databases
These are online databases that are of particular interest
for this subject. Selected databases include full-text coverage of
journal articles. Also included are the citations of a number of
articles that may be useful for this topic. For a complete list of
databases, please check the Libraries’
Databases
A-Z page.
- America: History and Life
- EBSCOhost (full-text)
- JSTOR (full-text)
- LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe (full-text)
- ProQuest ABI/INFORM (full-text)
- ProQuest Historical New York Times (full-text)
- Science Direct (full-text)
The following is a selection of articles from JSTOR using the
search term “Henry George.”
Arnott, Richard J. and Joseph E. Stiglitz. “Aggregate Land
Rents, Expenditure on Public Goods, and Optimal City Size.”
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, V. 93, No. 4
(November 1979): pp. 471-500.
Bronfenbrenner, Martin. “Early American Leaders—Institutional
and Critical Traditions,” The American Economic Review, V. 75, No.
6 (December 1985): pp. 13-27.
Hartwick, John M. “The Henry George Rule, Optimal Population,
and Interregional Equity.” The Canadian Journal of
Economics, V. 13, No. 4 (November 1980): pp. 695-700.
Johnson, Edward H. “The Economics of Henry George’s Progress and
Poverty,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 18,
No. 9 (November 1910): pp. 714-735.
Lee, Joseph. “Ethics of the Single Tax,” The Quarterly
Journal of Economics, V. 7, No. 4 (July 1893): pp.
433-458.
Whitaker, John K. “Enemies or Allies? Henry George and Francis
Amasa Walker One Century Later.” Journal of Economic
Literature, V. 35, No. 4 ((December 1997): pp.
1891-1915.
The following is a selection of articles from Science Direct
using the search term “Henry George.”
Buiter, Willem H. “Debt Neutrality, Professor Vickrey, and Henry
George’s single tax,” Economics Letters, V. 37.
Issue 2 (October 1991): pp. 209-213.
Kunce, Mitch. “A Nash Tax Game Extending the Generality of the
Henry George Theorem.” Economics Letters, V. 66,
No. 2, (August 1997): pp. 373-397.
Schweizer, Urs. “Endogenous Fertility and the Henry George
Theorem, “ Journal of Public Economics, V. 61, No.
2 (August 1996): pp. 209-228.
Wenzer, Kenneth. “From the Visionary Utopia by Thomas More to
the Cooperative Commonwealth of Henry George.” Research in
the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, V. 20,
pt. 2, pp. 1-16.
Web Sites
The following list contains links to a few web sites on this topic
that have been selected for the quality and relevance of their
content.
Council of Georgist Organizations http://www.progress.org/cgo/Council
founded based on philosophy of Henry George. Sponsors annual
conference.
Henry George Foundation http://www.henrygeorgefoundation.org/The
Foundation is an economic and social justice think tank and public
education group. Provides full-text access to current issues of
their newsletter, Land and Liberty.
Henry George Institute http://www.henrygeorge.org/hgi.htmFounded
in 1971, this not-for-profit institute is dedicated to promoting
the philosophy of Henry George through educational means. Sponsors
online courses.
Henry George School of Social Science http://www.henrygeorgeschool.org/School
dedicated to acquaint the public with the theoretical and
philosophical concept presented in George’s Progress and
Poverty.
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation http://www.schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/Publisher
of books and pamphlets by and about Henry George. Contains
online books by Henry George, including Progress and Poverty and
Social Problems.
* Available only at the Library on the Queens Campus