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Henry George

1839 - 1897

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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 produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry George has received more than 1,648,615 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Henry George is the 166th most popular economist (up from 188th in 2019), the 2,447th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,964th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Economist.

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  • 5.15

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Henry George ranks 166 out of 414. Before him are William F. Sharpe, Daniel McFadden, Roger Myerson, Piero Sraffa, Myron Scholes, and Raymond Barre. After him are Henry Sidgwick, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Lionel Robbins, Wilhelm Röpke, Pierre Leroux, and George Shultz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Henry George ranks 25. Before him are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Josef Rheinberger, Yoshitoshi, Konstantin Makovsky, Jamsetji Tata, and Floriano Peixoto. After him are Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Gaston Paris, Hermann Levi, Ivan Goremykin, and Takasugi Shinsaku. Among people deceased in 1897, Henry George ranks 27. Before him are Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Stanislas de Guaita, Galileo Ferraris, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, and Khurshidbanu Natavan. After him are Alexei Savrasov, Minna Canth, Léon Boëllmann, Viktor Meyer, David Schwarz, and Antonio Bazzini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry George ranks 2,447 out of 20,380. Before him are Frances Arnold (1956), Jaclyn Smith (1945), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), John Milnor (1931), Henry Winkler (1945), and Dan Quayle (1947). After him are P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Robert James Waller (1939), Grace Moore (1898), John G. Thompson (1932), Al Oerter (1936), and Jeb Bush (1953).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Henry George ranks 55. Before him are Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Peter Diamond (1940), John Bates Clark (1847), William F. Sharpe (1934), Daniel McFadden (1937), and Roger Myerson (1951). After him are George Shultz (1920), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Jim Rogers (1942), Michael Spence (1943), and Frank Knight (1885).

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