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Henry George and Europe

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  • Michael Silagi

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. The kingdom of Hungary still faced an unsolved land question as the 20th century dawned. More than half the land belonged to latifundia, large estates, archaically mismanaged with sweated labor. Unrest among the 6 million rural poor, a third of the population, brought forth embryonic land reform aspirations. The founder of the first farmers’party, Andras Achim, sought their expropriation and parcelling out. Publication of Henry George's writings in Hungarian by the sociologist Robert Braun and especially the activities of the physician and statistician Julius J. Pikler made the Georgist proposals known. In 1917 and 1918, Dr. Pikler's ingenious lobbying succeeded in winning over the city councils of Budapest and eight other Hungarian towns. The leaders of the 1918 republican revolution included land value taxation in their program. But the turmoil of 1919, Horthy's counter‐revolution and torrential currency inflation destroyed the Georgist advance.

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  • Michael Silagi, 1994. "Henry George and Europe," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(1), pages 111-127, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:53:y:1994:i:1:p:111-127
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1994.tb02682.x
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