That Disturbing Devil
Ferdinand Mount: Land Ownership, 8 May 2014
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership
by Andro Linklater.
Bloomsbury, 482 pp., £20, January 2014,978 1 4088 1574 8 Show More
by Andro Linklater.
Bloomsbury, 482 pp., £20, January 2014,
“... eccentricity’. Certainly that is the reputation which has stuck to his best-known predecessor, Henry George. In his 1879 bestseller, Progress and Poverty, George set out the same thumping principle which inspires Linklater: ‘The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political and consequently the ... ”