Spencer Heath

For the baseball player, see Spencer Heath (baseball).

Spencer Heath (January 3, 1876, Vienna, Virginia – October 6, 1963, Leesburg, Virginia) was an American engineer, attorney, inventor, manufacturer, horticulturist, poet, philosopher of science and social thinker.[1] A dissenter from the prevailing Georgist views, he pioneered the theory of proprietary governance and community in his book Citadel, Market and Altar.[2] His grandson, Spencer Heath MacCallum, popularized and expounded on his ideas, most notably in his book The Art of Community.[3][4]

  1. ^ Spencer Heath MacCallum, "The Quickening of Social Evolution: Negotiating the Last Rapids", The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Vol. II No. 2 (Fall 1997).
  2. ^ Fred E. Foldvary, Heath: Estranged Georgist, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April, 2004. Foldvary’s writings on Heath also were published as chapter 28 of Robert V. Andelson’s book Critics of Henry George: An Appraisal of Their Strictures on Progress and Poverty, Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
  3. ^ Spencer MacCallum: Looking Back and Forward, Lewrockwell.com, December 19, 2003.
  4. ^ Spencer Heath McCallum, The Art of Community, Institute for Humane Studies, 1970.