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July/August 1988 | Volume 39, Issue 5
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July/August 1988 | Volume 39, Issue 5
Managing Editor, The New Republic As I write, the single most overrated person in all of American history is Oliver North. I’m hoping that may no longer be true by the time you publish this symposium. Henry George. Barely a public figure at all is the nineteenth-century economist (he did twice run for mayor of New York, I believe) Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty , America’s greatest contribution to economic thought.