Progress and Poverty

Perhaps Henry George’s best known work in which he examines the casuses of poverty and, among other things, blames it on the monopoly of land ownership.
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth, The Remedy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Co. 1912).
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Table of Contents
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- CONTENTS
- Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of "Progress And Poverty"
- Preface to Fourth Edition
- Introductory The Problem
- Introductory The Problem
- Book I Wages and Capital
- Chapter I The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency
- Chapter II The Meaning of the Terms
- Chapter III Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor
- Chapter IV The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
- Chapter V The Real Functions of Capital
- Book II Population and Subsistence
- Chapter I The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
- Chapter II Inferences from Facts
- Chapter III Inferences from Analogy
- Chapter IV Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
- Book III The Laws of Distribution
- Chapter I The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—Necessary Relation of These Laws
- Chapter II Rent and the Law of Rent
- Chapter III Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
- Chapter IV Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
- Chapter V The Law of Interest
- Chapter VI Wages and the Law of Wages
- Chapter VII The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws
- Chapter VIII The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
- Book IV Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
- Chapter I The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
- Chapter II The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
- Chapter III The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth
- Chapter IV Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
- Book V The Problem Solved
- Chapter I The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
- Chapter II The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
- Book VI The Remedy
- Chapter I Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
- I.: From Greater Economy in Government
- II.: From the Diffusion of Education and Improved Habits of Industry and Thrift
- III.: From Combinations of Workmen
- IV.: From Co-operation
- V.: From Governmental Direction and Interference
- VI.: From a More General Distribution of Land
- Chapter II The True Remedy
- Book VII Justice of The Remedy
- Chapter I The Injustice of Private Property in Land
- Chapter II The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
- Chapter III Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
- Chapter IV Property in Land Historically Considered
- Chapter V Of Property in Land in the United States
- Book VIII Application of the Remedy
- Chapter I Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
- Chapter II How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
- Chapter III The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
- I.: The Effect of Taxes upon Production
- II.: As to Ease and Cheapness of Collection
- III.: As to Certainty
- IV.: As to Equality
- Chapter IV Indorsements and Objections
- Book IX Effects of the Remedy
- Chapter I Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
- Chapter II Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
- Chapter III Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
- Chapter IV Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
- Book X The Law of Human Progress
- Chapter I The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency
- Chapter II Differences in Civilization—To What Due
- Chapter III The Law of Human Progress
- Chapter IV How Modern Civilization May Decline
- Chapter V The Central Truth
- Conclusion THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE
- Conclusion THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE
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