Progress and Poverty
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy is an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George. It
Title page for Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy (1881 edition)
Portrait of George by I. W. Taber, taken shortly after writing Progress and Poverty
Henry George
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Henry George was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He ins
Progress and Poverty
…the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy (P&P) is an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George. It is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward cyclical…
George in 1886
Henry George Birthplace in Philadelphia
George's father Richard S. H. George
George with his son Henry Jr. and daughter Anna c. 1897