Henry George and Europe: Hungary began a promising venture in Georgist tax reform but revolutionary turmoil and inflation ended it. From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Faulkner, Susan N.; Silagi, Michael | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The kingdom of Hungary still faced an unsolved land question as the 20th century dawned. More than half the land belonged to latifundia, large estates, archaically mismanaged with sweated labor. Unrest among the 6 million rural poor, a third of the population, brought forth embryonic land reform aspirations. The founder of the first farmers' party, Andras Achim, sought their expropriation and parcelling out. Publication of Henry George's writings in Hungarian by the sociologist Robert Braun a...

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