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The Georgist Roots of American Libertarianism—Asterisk

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Few thinkers have been championed by such a wide range of political coalitions, from American Progressives to Taiwanese anti-communists, early Zionists to the global Green Party. So how did American libertarianism come to embrace Henry George, too?

The Georgist Roots of American Libertarianism—Asterisk Few thinkers have been championed by such a wide range of political coalitions, from American Progressives to Taiwanese anti-communists, early Zionists to the global Green Party. So how did American libertarianism come to embrace Henry George, too? In 2023, Sam Altman embarked on a world tour, meeting with heads of state to discuss AI regulation. According to Time ’s CEO of the Year Profile , he was also quietly promoting a more obscure cause — the ideas of the nineteenth-century political economist Henry George. As Altman explained in a 2

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