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A Biographical History of the Georgist Movement



“The grey heads and bald heads are in the majority. The problem that confronts those of us who want the torch held up in the future, is to fill up the ranks. In order to do that many things must be done, but we must not depend on the old or middle-aged. Somehow or other we must devise a way to reach the minds of the young people – when their minds are open, when they are ready for new truths.”

Mr. Rose, of Kansas City, Missouri (from a speech at the 1928 Henry George Foundation Congress, Chicago. Reprinted in: Land and Freedom, September-October 1928)


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Andorra
Name Place(s) of Residence Comments
Pla,
Francisco (Dr.)
...
  • 1916 - Along with William L. Price and Fiske Warrent, they announced plans to establish a Single Tax colony. Pla is described as "one of the most learned and distinguished citizens of the little Republic." They purchased a tract of land near Escaldas to be leased to farmers and "will not be taxed on buildings or improvements."
Argentina
Name Place(s) of Residence Comments
Alves de Lima,
Alberto
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1961 - Sent a Spanish edition of Progress and Poverty to Matt Ossias to help with new translation
ARGENTINE GEORGIST CONFEDERATION
(Buenos Aires)
ARGENTINE SINGLE TAX LEAGUE
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1914 - Founded
Azzereto,
Eduardo S.
...
  • 1952 - Serving as teacher, Institute for Economic Education
Bary,
Alfonso L.
...
  • 1929 - Serving as President, Procince of Pampa chapter, Argentine Georgist Confederation
Becie,
Teodoro
...
  • 1917 - Doctorate thesis, Increment Value Taxation, published
Belaustegui,
Eduardo F.
San Isidro
  • 1921 - Article, Argentina's Georgist Liberal Party, Single Tax Review, September-October
  • 1935 - Book, Social Economic Problems (dealing with the land question from the Georgist viewpoint), published
Bellagamba,
Juan B.
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1926 - Attended International Confernece, Copenhagen
  • 1939 - Served as President, Henry George Centenary conference
  • 1940 - Started a new bi-weekly newspaper, Nueva Argentina
Bianco,
Jose (Dr.)
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1914 - Elected President, Argentine Single Tax League
  • 1914 - Serving as a Prof. of Economics, University of Buenos Aires
Bic,
Enrique de
...
  • 1952 - Serving as teacher, Institute for Economic Education
Birabent,
Mauricio
(Buenos Aires)
  • 19-- - Born, Buenos Aires
  • 1946 - Served as Associate Editor, Democracia
  • 1961 - Editor and director of Revista Reforma Agraria
  • 1963 - Became President, Agrarian Social Institute
  • 1982 - Died, 18 January
Bjorner,
Carmen
...
  • 1952 - Attended International Union conference, Odense, Denmark
Black,
Thomas C.
Buenos Aires
  • 1937 - Active in the Single Tax movement
Capdevila,
Arturo (Dr.)
...
  • 1939 - Participated in Henry George Centenary conference
Carranza,
Carlos P. (Dr.)
...
  • Profession: Spanish emigre lawyer and one-time officer of the Single Tax movement in Spain
  • 195- - Book, The World of the Future -- American Capitalism or Russian Communism?
  • 195- - Book, The Land Problem in Spain and the World, written with Jose Balbontin
Castro,
Andres Maspero (Dr.)
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen
  • 1926 - Serving as Speical Correspondent, Land and Freedom (thru 19xx)
Cobanera,
Romulo S.
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1952 - Attended International Union conference, Odense, Denmark
  • 1956 - Died, 8 April (while working on a book)
Creagher,
John
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1883 - Serving as a medical doctor in Argentina; urged that Progress and Poverty be translated into Spanish
Denegri,
Luiz
(La Plata)
  • 1929 - Serving as President, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentine Georgist Confederation
Dominguez,
C. Villalobos
...
  • Profession: Professor, Physical, Natural and Exact Sciences, University of Buenos Aires
  • 1931 - Article, on the United Kingdom budget debate, Libertad, 30 April
  • 1941 - Resigned from membershp in Academy of Political Science in protect over subjectiveness and "disposition of the Academy to ignore the principles of Henry George and Herbert Spencer."
  • 1941 - Campaigned successfully to have land rent taxation language included in "a general colonization law."
  • 1941 - Article, Who Pays All Taxes, The Freeman, October
  • 1942 - Article, A Reply to Critics, The Freeman, March
  • 1942 - Article, On Rent, Land Values, Speculation and Taxes, (a reply to John Z. White) The Freeman, October
Durrieu,
Alberto (Dr.)
...
  • 1929 - Serving as President, Province of Cordoba chapter, Argentine Georgist Confederation
Ferrer,
Ignacio E. (Dr.)
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1940 - Article, on the fiscal system of Cordoba, Nueva Argentina
Fua-Lamesine,
Hugues
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1952 - Former student at Henry George School in NYC; helped to establish the Henry George School in Argentina
Garrett,
Easton
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1934 - Working on a Spanish translation of the book, Significant Paragraphs from Progress and Poverty
GEORGIST TRIBUNE, THE ...
  • 1928 - Bagan publication as the organ of the Argentine Georgist Confederation
Gerstein,
Fernando Scornik.
(Buenos Aires)
  • 2000 - Attended International Union conference, Denmark
  • 2004 - Attended International Union conference, Madrid, Spain, May; elected President of the IU
HENRY GEORGE CONVENTION ...
  • 1928 - Held in Buenos Aires, 25-27 May
  • 1929 - Held at Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Airees, 25-27 May
Horne,
Bernadino C.
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1963 - Founded Agrarian Social Institute ("Instituto Social Agrario")
INSTITUTO DE CAPACITACION ECONOMICA
(Institute of Economic Development)
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1985 - Founded; Hector R. Sandler, Director
INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1952 - Established
Labos,
Eleodoro
...
  • 1914 - Member, Argentine Single Tax League
  • 1914 - Constitutional lawyer and Professor of Agrarian Legislaton, University of Buenos Aires
Lamas,
Andres
...
  • 1882 - Book, The Agrarian Legislation of Rivadavia, published
Lima,
Alves de
...
  • 1952 - Attended International Union conference, Odense, Denmark
Llambia,
Dr.
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1920 - Mayor of Buenos Aires; proposed to city council that all city revenue come from a tax on land values
Machello,
Bartolome
...
  • 1928 - Active in Single Tax movement, serving as Treasure of the Henry George group
Machello,
Senor B.
(Rosario)
  • Profession: Lecturer on political science
  • 1941 - Lectured on Fundamental Economics at Colon Theatre, January
Martinez,
Saul P.
(Buenos Aires)
  • Profession: civil engineer
  • 1983 - Secretary, Agrarian Social Institute
  • 1985 - Secretary, Institute of Economic Development
  • 2004 - Attended International Union conference, Madrid, Spain, May
Moreno,
Nicholas Beslo
(Buenos Aires)
  • Profession: Engineer
  • 1929 - Serving as President, Argentine Georgist Confederation
  • 1939 - Participated in Henry George Centenary Conference
Molinari,
Antonio M.
(Buenos Aires)
  • Profession: lawyer and economist; Served as adviser to Argentine Agrarian Federation; chief editor of its newspaper, La Tierra (The Land)
  • 1937 - First known date of being active in the Single Tax movement
  • 19-- - Co-founder of bi-weekly paper, Democracia
  • 19-- - Book, The Law of Colonization and the Palacios Amendment, published
  • 195- - Book, Why Liberty Dies, published
  • 19-- - Book, The Argentine Inflation, Will Destroy the Country
  • 19-- - Book, Societies of Limited Responsibility, published
  • 1979 - Book, The Argentine Inflation Will Destroy the Country
  • 1983 - Book, The Endemic Argentine Crisis, Has Solution?
  • 1983 - Served as head of Agrarian Social Institute
  • 1985 - President, Instituto Social Agrario (Agrarian Social Institute)
  • 1990 - Died
Mollura,
Pedro
...
  • Profession: agrarian engineer
  • 1985 - Member of Agrarian Social Institute; served as adviser to the Peronist government
Pena,
Rogue Saenz
...
  • 19-- - President of Argentina; supported the Single Tax
PREDICA ...
  • 1984 - Founded as Georgist periodical
Reisseg,
Manual Herraray
...
  • 1913 - Book, El Impuesto Territorial (The Land Tax)
REVISTA DEL IMPUESTO UNICO
(Single Tax Review)
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1917 - Established (no other information known)
  • 1929 - Special Convention Edition, May-June. QUOTE: "Begins now, after fourteen years of labor in spreading the doctrinal principles of Henry George, a neew era of propaganda opened iwth the union of all Georgist Argentines in oine single association..."
Rivadavia,
Bernardno
...
  • 19-- - Elected Argentina's first President; introduced land reform "by which the title to land was nationalized, the right to individual possession beng held under a perpetually renewable lease. The improvements remianed the absolute property of the leaseholder, and had to be recognized in any involuntary transfer of the lease. The terms of the lease were to be readjusted every ten years on a new valuation."
Rivarola,
Rodolfo
...
  • 1917 - Director, Review of Political Sciences
Ruzo,
Alejandro
...
  • 1917 - Legal Councillor to the National Department of Labor
  • 1917 - Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires
Sandler,
Hector Raul
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1952 - Began active support for Henry George's reform proposals
  • 1976 - Forced to flee Argentina
  • 1976 - Taught economics in Mexico, then the United States (New Mexico) until 1984
  • 1984 - Returned to Argentina and found the People's Party and the Institute for Economic Training; also joined the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires
  • 1980s - Served as Editor of Democracia, por una Nueva Argentina
  • 1989 - Book, El Desafio Argentino: Eliminar los Impruestos (The Argentine Challenge: Eliminate Taxes)
  • 1990 - Proposed setting up a Georgist Latin American Center in Miami
  • 1990 - Delivered update on Argentina at CGO Conference
  • 2004 - Attended International Union conference, Madrid, Spain, May
Scornik, Fernando ...
  • 1978- - Book, The Land Problem in Argentina
Silva,
Angel
...
  • Profession: Engineer
  • 1929 - Serving as President, City of Buenos Aires chapter, Argentine Georgist Confederation
TRIBUNA GEORGEISTA (Buenos Aires).
  • 19-- - Established, devoted to the Single Tax
Tuercke,
Juan J. (Dr.)
...
  • 1952 - Serving as teacher, Institute for Economic Education
Unsworth,
Juan
(Bahia Blanca)
  • 1929 - Serving as President, Bahia Blanca chapter, Argentine Georgist Confederation
Vasquez,
Jose
...
  • 1983 - Research economists for Agrarian Social Institute
Vigil,
Constancio C.
...
  • 1917 - Director, weekly Mundo Argentino
Villalobos,
C.
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1937 - Active in the Single Tax movement
Vitale,
Felix
(Buenos Aires)
  • 1889 - Emigrated from Italy
  • 19-- - Book, Poverty and Discontent
  • 19-- - Serving as President, South American Single Tax Committee
  • 1939 - Participated in Henry George Centenary Conference
  • 1940 - Serving as editor, Nueva Argentina
  • 1940 - Article, The Struggle for Freedom in South America, Land & Liberty, March. Reprinted from Land and Freedom, July-August
  • 1949 - Attended International Union conference, Swanwick, England
Zuccotti,
Juan
...
  • Profession: urban and regonal planner
  • 1929 - Born, 16 April
  • 1970 - Photograph
  • 1986 - Returned to Argentina after long exile in United State
  • 1986 - Head of Institute of Economic Training
  • 1987 - Book, Contemporary Argentine Emigration (reviewed by James Busey, Georgist Journal, Autumn)
  • 1989 - Book, Contemporary Argentine Emigration, from 1950, published
  • 1990 - Open letter, "The Productive Revolution and the Lost Link," to President Menem, June
  • 1990 - Photograph
  • 1994 - Moved to Miami
  • 2007 - Paper, The Argentine Movement for a Political Economy of National Order
  • 2008 - Died, 1 July