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Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II / An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth — Henry George

Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II / An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth

Henry George

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 469 pages

Progress and Poverty is Henry George's treatise on political economy, an inquiry into why industrial depressions and poverty persist amid growing wealth. It examines the causes of inequality and proposes a remedy centered on land and economic justice. Listen for its influential arguments about how societies might reduce want.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY GEORGE
  2. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. INTRODUCTORY.
  5. BOOK I. WAGES AND CAPITAL.
  6. BOOK II. POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE.
  7. BOOK III. THE LAWS OF DISTRIBUTION.
  8. BOOK IV. EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROGRESS UPON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.
  9. BOOK V. THE PROBLEM SOLVED.
  10. BOOK VI. THE REMEDY.
  11. BOOK VII. JUSTICE OF THE REMEDY.
  12. BOOK VIII. APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY.
  13. BOOK IX. EFFECTS OF THE REMEDY.
  14. BOOK X. THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS.
  15. CONCLUSION. THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE.
  16. INDEX.
  17. FOOTNOTES:
  18. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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