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
Tom L. Johnson
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Tom Loftin Johnson was an American industrialist, Georgist politician, and important figure of the Progressive Era and a pioneer in urban political and social reform. He was a U.S. representative from
Portrait by C. M. Bell, c. 1891–1894
Tom Loftin Johnson in 1907 at his desk
Statue of Tom Johnson holding Henry George's Progress and Poverty