Harry Gunnison Brown

Harry Gunnison Brown An Orthodox Economist and His Contributions - Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice

3rd Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Harry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of a important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J. B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight. In some ways Brown represented an orthodoxy in economics that was slipping away as neoclassical economics assumed a particular shape. For example, Brown argued for the separate influences of both land and capital goods on the pricing of goods and services and did not follow the trend in "orthodox" circles of considering land just another form of capital. Brown supported land value taxation at a time when the leading economists of his day rejected Henry George's ideas and the possibility of Georgist economics.

  • Ryan explores the work of Harry Gunnison Brown, one the most important innovators in American economic history
  • Summarizes Brown's theoretical insights as well as the intellectual contexts in which they were developed

Book information

ISBN: 9781405108645
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Pub date:
Edition: 3rd Edition
DEWEY: 330.092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiv, 270
Weight: 463g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 17mm