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The Annotated Works of Henry George - Protection or Free Trade (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Annotated Works of Henry George - Protection or Free Trade (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: The Annotated Works of Henry George
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Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and
economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the
late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty
(1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes
of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His
reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded
Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such
diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston
Churchill, and Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of The
Annotated Works of Henry George assembles all his major works for
the first time with new introductions, critical annotations,
extensive bibliographical material, and comprehensive indexing to
provide a wealth of resources for scholars and reformers. Volume IV
of this series presents the unabridged text of Protection or Free
Trade (1886). Read into the U.S. Congressional Record in its
entirety in 1892, Protection or Free Trade is one of the most well
articulated defenses in the nineteenth century for the free
exchange of goods, services, and labor. By exposing the
monopolistic practices and the privileging of special interests in
the trade policies of his time, George constructed a monumental
theoretical bulwark against the apologists for protective tariffs
and diverse trade preferences. Free trade today is often associated
with a neo-liberal agenda that oppresses working people. In
Protection or Free Trade George argues that free trade, when linked
with land value taxation or the systematic collection of economic
rent, reduces wealth and income inequality. True free trade
elevates the condition of labor to a degree far greater than any
form of trade protectionism. The full and original text of
Protection or Free Trade presented in Volume IV of The Annotated
Works of Henry George is supplemented by annotations which explain
George's many references to the trade policies and disputes of his
day. A new index augments accessibility to the text, the
annotations, and their key terms. The introductory essay by
Professor William S. Peirce, "Henry George and the Theory and
Politics of Trade," provides the historical, political, and
conceptual context for George's debates with the prominent
political economists and trade advocates of his time. Henry George
wrote Protection or Free Trade with an unparalleled logical clarity
about the harm that restrictive trade practices do to human welfare
and the advancement of civilization. Trade barriers of any type
serve the interests of a few and invariably impede the economic
progress of society. George is adamant that protectionism fosters
poverty and animates global conflict. The development of trade
policy cannot be pursued in isolation from the broader principles
of sound economics. Tax reform and free trade are reciprocal
components of the need for a radical reshaping of fiscal economics
in the twentieth first century.
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