Harry Gunnison Brown: An Orthodox Economist and His Contributions, 3rd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-1156-0
Hardcover
284 pages
November 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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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