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Henry George and ‘Rerum Novarum’

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  • C. Joseph Nuesse

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. Students of the life and thought of Henry George have accepted too readily his own opinion, expressed in the Open Letter that he addressed to Pope Leo XIII in 1891, that the Pope's epoch making encyclical Rerum novarum was aimed at Georgism The disposition of the Open Letter in Vatican circles remains obscure, perhaps because the Holy Office had so recently decided that George's works were deserving of condemnation. But there is documentary support for only an allusion to George's views on property in the encyclical. Nor can the reinstatement of Father Edward McGlynn and the reappraisal of George that it signaled be attributed to the Open Letter. George's views may have had significant indirect influence, however, through (1) national land reform movements insofar as they affected the course of Catholic social thought, and (2) the discussion of Georgism as a form of socialism. These possibilities need to be investigated.

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  • C. Joseph Nuesse, 1985. "Henry George and ‘Rerum Novarum’," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(2), pages 241-254, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:44:y:1985:i:2:p:241-254
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1985.tb02339.x
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