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  • Progress and Poverty

    by Henry George ...
    Progress and Poverty, first published in 1879, was American political economist Henry George's most popular book. It explores why the economy of the mid-to-late 1800s had seen simultaneous economic growth and growth in poverty. The book's appeal was in its balance of moral and economic arguments, challenging the popular notion that the poor were responsible for their own woes through uncontrolled ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty - The Complete Works of Henry George

    by Henry George ...
    "Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event. The life and thought of no one capable of understanding it can be quite the same after reading it."- Emma LazarusIn this landmark text, Henry George lays out his study of questions of why poverty partners with economic and technological progress. His theory of single land tax proposed in this book was so influential it spurred progressive ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty

    by Henry George ...
    Progress and Poverty by Henry George.This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China.Henry George lived through a period of American history which witnessed the closing of the ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty: Full and Fine Text of 1880 Edition (Illustrated)

    by Henry George ...
    The book has an active table of contents for reader to access each chapter of the book.Henry George was an American political economist and he was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism that we still can feel its strong influence on modern American life. Today, American economic structure ... Read more

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  • The Land Question

    What It Involves, And How It Can Be Settled

    by Henry George ...
    First published in 1881, under the title of "The Irish Land Question," but dealing, as it does with matters of universal and permanent importance, it still retained its value and popularity in 1893, when the title was changed. Meant as an attack on Herbert Spencer for a position taken up by him ten years ago it was rather late in its appearance. ... Read more

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  • Rose, Blanche, and Violet (Complete)

    by George Henry Lewes ...
    It was a sultry day in July, and the sun was pouring down from a cloudless heaven intense rays upon the High-street of * * * * * The heat made the place a desert; more indeed of a desert than even High-streets of country towns usually are. There was a burnt odour in the atmosphere, arising from the scorched pavement, and rayed forth from the garish brick houses. Silence and noon-day heat reigned ... Read more

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  • Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies

    by George Henry Blore ...
    Some excuse seems to be needed for venturing at this time to publish biographical sketches of the men of the Victorian era. Several have been written by men, like Lord Morley and Lord Bryce, having first-hand knowledge of their subjects, Others by the best critics of the next generation, such as Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Clutton-Brock. With their critical ability I am not able to compete; but they ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty

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

    by Henry George ...
    Series Book 1 - The Robert Anton Wilson Reccomended Reading List
    Near the end of his life, Robert Anton Wilson published a list of books that he recommended to everyone to read. In his words, these books are:“Not the ‘best’ or even my favorites exactly: just the bare minimum of what everybody really needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about the 21st Century”Progress and Poverty by Henry George is the first of these books, ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty

    by Henry George ...
    First published in 1879, “Progress and Poverty” is the ground-breaking treatise on the relationship between industrialization and poverty by Henry George, the American social theorist and economist. A huge commercial success when it was published and one of the best-selling books in America in the late 19th century, George’s work had a profound influence on economists, politicians, and social ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty

    by Henry George ...
    This is the book that made its author Henry George suddenly famous. From the year 1879 to the present the doctrines of 'Progress and Poverty' have been familiar to all who are interested in social problems. The book has been read by many to whom Political Economy is still 'the dismal science', and it has been circulated in cheap editions by the thousand among the classes to which it holds out such ... Read more

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  • Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth

    by Henry George, Gemma Yateswell ...
    Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II is Henry George's landmark inquiry into the paradox of industrial modernity: why advancing wealth, technology, and productivity so often coexist with deepening poverty. Written in lucid, forceful prose rather than technical jargon, the work blends political economy, moral philosophy, and reformist rhetoric. In the context of late nineteenth-century capitalism ... Read more

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  • Protection or Free Trade

    by Henry George ...
    Henry George on free trade! The dismal science is being reclaimed, its swamp lands drained, its jungles cleared, sunshine and free air let in; and the cheap publishers are establishing a prosperous settlement on the bogs where the owl but lately was wont to hoot its wisdom to unlistening ears. The singular success of Mr. George is that he has made Political Economy interesting. A vast deal of ... Read more

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