Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Economics is a vast area of study, with numerous ideologies, models and theories that explain

how and why economies run the way they do.

From kensianism to the Friedman theory to the Fisher Effect, economists have worked for

years to describe the relationships between supply and demand, interest rates and inflation,

and a lot more.

One man however traveled a holy different path.

His name was Henry George, and during the 19th century his beliefs flew in the face of

the prevailing theories of the time.

Even today, Georgeism stands out as the antithesis of modern capitalism.

In Georgeism, it was believed that the value produced by the people should be owned

by the people, and a single land tax would be far more beneficial to society as a whole,

rather than a series of taxes affecting the poor and the working class.

Georgeism counted among its supporters a young woman named Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was born in 1866 and moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1880s to build a new life for

herself.

She stood as a proud feminist, getting a job as a stenographer and writing fiction on

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