Political Philosophy · Political Economy
Progress and Poverty
George’s attempt to explain why deepening poverty accompanied industrial progress rather than retreating before it, and his answer: that the gains were captured as land rent by people who had produced nothing. The single tax on land value that follows from it made this one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century and launched a movement that still argues its case. Read now as much for the diagnosis as the remedy.
- Period
- 1879
- Region
- United States
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public domain — published 1879, before 1930, so the work is free of copyright in the United States. The scan is the Internet Archive's, released without additional restriction.
- Source
- https://archive.org/details/progresspovertyi00georuoft
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