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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Opening of the book
This Memorial Edition of the Writings of
Henry George is limited to one thousand
numbered copies, of which this is
No. 4
MEMORIAL EDITION
OF THE WRITINGS
OF HENRY GEORGE
VLjƯ. I.
Make for thyself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is, in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell thyself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved. For nothing is so productive of elevation of mind as to be able to examine methodically and truly every object which is presented to thee in life, and always to look at things so as to see at the same time what kind of universe this is, and what kind of use everything performs in it, and what value everything has with reference to the whole, and what with reference to man, who is a citizen of the highest city, of which all other cities are like families; what each thing is, and of what it is composed, and how long it is the nature of this thing to endure.—Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus.
Henry George when writing “Progress and Poverty” San Francisco, 1879
Title Page
THE WRITINGS OF
HENRY GEORGE
PROGRESS AND POVERTY AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSIONS AND OF INCREASE OF WANT WITH INCREASE OF WEALTH THE REMEDY I NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY AND MCCLURE COMPANY 1898 Copyright, 1891, by HŧƿǡΏ GŧLjǡƄŧ Tƒŧ Dŧ VƗƿƿŧ PǡŧǪǪ. TO THOSE WHO, SEEING THE VICE AND MISERY THAT SPRING FROM THE UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND PRIVILEGE, FEEL THE POSSIBILITY OF A HIGHER SOCIAL STATE AND WOULD STRIVE FOR ITS ATTAINMENT Sĵƿ FǡĵƿŕƗǪŕLj, March, 1879.
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