ABSTRACT
A broader view of Harry Gunnison Brown's thought on political economy must include a consideration of his general philosophical and political views. Brown's open advocacy of land value taxation did not make him a pariah in the profession. He quickly attained his full professorship at Missouri and expressed in a letter his satisfaction with his position. Brown's espousal of land value taxation was consistent with his theoretical position in economics. As more economists tended to merge land and capital and make more difficult his advocacy, he moved to justify the separation of land and capital on theoretical grounds. Statements by M. Slade Kendrick in his Public Finance demonstrate an open-mindedness Brown felt was all too lacking in the profession. Robert Heilbroner commented that upon Henry George's death his reputation "went straight into the underworld of economics.".
