Progress and Poverty

An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy

By: Henry George

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Henry George (1839 97) was an American journalist and newspaper editor. In Progress and Poverty, his most famous work (1879), he seeks to explain the apparent paradox that the gulf between rich and poor in a developed city (or nation) is much less that that in a less developed community: 'Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege.' His economic ideas were widely debated, and this volume also contains a response to the 1881 English edition of the book from Isaac B. Cooke, a cotton broker from Liverpool, and Andrew Mearns's The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883), a short but telling description of the reality of the poverty then to be found in the world's richest city."

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Non-Fiction Accounting & Finance Finance Public Accounting in Finance Tax & Taxation History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Economics Economic Theory & Philosophy Political Economy

Introductory
Wages and capital
Population and subsistence
The laws of distribution
Effect of material progress upon the distribution of wealth
The problem solved
The remedy
Justice of the remedy
Application of the remedy
Effects of the remedy
The law of human progress
Conclusion
'Progress and Poverty': a reply to Mr Henry George
The bitter cry of outcast London
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