Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II
An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth
Progress and Poverty, published in 1879, is Henry George's attempt to answer a question that troubled his age: why poverty deepens even as wealth and invention advance. George, a self-taught San Francisco journalist, takes apart the economic doctrines of his time, arguing that wages are not drawn from capital but produced by labor and that the theory of Malthus is false, and then works out his own laws of distribution. The cause, he concludes, is the private appropriation of the rising value of land, and the remedy a single tax on land values. The book sold in vast numbers around the world and inspired reformers for generations. This memorial edition gives both volumes. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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