The article that inspired this post: The Greening of the California Desert by E. Robert Scrofani. During the 1880s, the decade directly succeeding the publication of Henry George’s masterwork Progress and Poverty, California was a state dominated by large landowners and natural-resource monopolists. One of them was Henry Miller, who owned over a million acres of … Continue reading The Wright Act of 1887: How Henry George’s ideas allowed Californian smallholding farmers to prosper