Word: georgism
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Yanowksi, who is in the final stages of completing a dissertation titled Seeing the Cat: Georgism, the Single Tax, and Enthusiastic Reform in America 1879-1900, said in an interview yesterday that he has yet to receive a formal offer from the University, though he had unofficial "word" from History Department Chair Thomas N. Bisson earlier this week...
...appetite for warmed-over ideas. Consequently, the gratuitous revival last week of a school of thought that had its heyday more than 40 years ago made news. As the Henry George School of Social Science bought a $50,000 building in Manhattan for schoolhouse and headquarters, disciples of Georgism disclosed that the single-tax doctrine today has some 21,000 student followers throughout the U. S., is growing rapidly...
...school got a new director and a business manager, soon was giving free lessons, mostly to middle-aged people, in Y. M. C. A.'s, settlement houses, clubs, schools. Today there are classes in some 200 U. S. cities and seven foreign countries, and 5,000 people study Georgism by correspondence. New teachers cannot be trained fast enough. Honorary president of the school is venerable Philosopher John Dewey...
Director is burly Frank Chodorov, quondam schoolteacher, traveling salesman, manufacturer, editor, who constantly has a pipe or cigar in his mouth. Director Chodorov last week had a simple explanation for Georgism's revival: its simplicity. So simple that the school claims the man-in-the-street can be trained to teach it, Henry George's doctrine, according to Mr. Chodorov, sweeps aside the "academic gibberish" with which orthodox practitioners of the "dismal" science of economics clothe their confusion. Director Chodorov also claimed that the Henry George School is free from propaganda: "We don't make the students...