Why you can afford to travel the world but can't afford a basic house?
      Why you have to live so far from where you work?
      Why you have to work for someone else?
      Why your rising council tax doesn't seem to be improving your area?
      How the earth will manage to support your children?
      About our values, when we waste so much while some barely survive?

If you have, you're not the first.

The economist Henry George asked these sort of questions over 120 years ago, then he realised they were all just different parts of the same problem. He wrote a book, Progress and Poverty, that became the world's best selling book on economics and society.

Great thinkers including Churchill, Einstein and Tolstoy believed he held the key to creating the basis of a truly prosperous and just society.

So why have so few of us heard of him, and why will it make so much difference if we do?

At the Henry George Foundation we believe his ideas are even more relevant today than they were over a century ago. They could help solve our impending housing crisis, make it easier to live near our work, improve community relations, help us to launch our own enterprises and make trade truly win-win for all. They are also, we believe, critical to the resolution of public and private property issues, international conflicts and even saving the planet.

We are not affiliated to any political party or religion but as an economic and social justice think tank we are looking to help make society healthier, happier and more sustainable.

We are active on three broad fronts – research, education and advocacy – searching for and putting forward practical and innovative solutions to seemingly intractable social. The Henry George Foundation aims to reconcile the well being of people with the problems faced by those that share this planet with us and the planet itself.

• We’ll be very pleased to have shared our ideas with you if you read the pages on this site and the articles in the web version of our long standing publication Land & Liberty.
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