Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy

Henry George

Appleton, 1886

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Review: Progress and Poverty

User Review  - Jeff - Goodreads

Brilliant but difficult to parse (due to language style and very long sentences) explanation of his theory of LAND TAX. Not property tax, not income tax, not sales tax, not value-added tax, but a tax on the rental (or imputed rental) value of land. Gives reasons why this tax makes sense.

Review: Progress and Poverty

User Review  - Michael - Goodreads

I read this looking to understand HG's proposal as it relates to speculation/vacant lots/abandoned buildings in urban settings. I wasn't expecting to get such an eye-opening treatise on societal ...

Contents

• Introductory: 3
• Book IWages and Capital: 13
• Took IIPopulation and Subsistence: 79
• Book IIITub Laws of Distribution: 137
• Book IVEffect of Material Progress upon the Distribution of Wealth: 203
• Book VThe Problem Solved: 235
• Book VITtih Remedy: 267
• Chapter IInjustice of private property in land 209: 297
• IIEnslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land: 312
• Book VIIIApplication of the Remedy: 355
• Book IXEffects of the Remedy: 387
• Book x The Law of Human Progress: 425
• Conclusion: 499

Bibliographic information

• Title: Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy
• Author: Henry George
• Publisher: Appleton, 1886
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jul 25, 2008