Legacy
Hall is widely regarded as a key to the development of Marxist thought, and Karl Marx referred to him as "a true phenomenon in the history of economic thought". Hall was also an important precursor to Henry George, and one of the first modern land reformers.
Many scholars also identify Hall as one of "first of the early socialists", and one of the first thinkers to recognize the importance of surplus value and rents to societal inequality.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)