Progress and poverty

George, Henry

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Progress and poverty: an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth

Author:: George, Henry

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Year of publication:: 1942

Language:: English

Topic:: H - Political economy

Shelfmark:: H/G348 (50)

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

XX CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE ITI.—Effect of improvements in the arts upon the distribu- tionofwealth . . . . . , . , . . . . . 244 1V.—Effect of the expectation raised by material progress . 255 Book V.—Tur ProsLeM SoLvED I.—The primary cause of recurring paroxysms of industrial depression . . . . . . , [J , . . . . . 263 IT.—The persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth . . 282 Boor VI.—Tuar REMEDY L—Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated . . . 299 II.—The true remedy . . . . . . . 328 Book VII.—Justice oF THE REMEDY I—Injustico of private property inland . . . . . II.—Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land a TII.—Claim of land owners to compensation. . . . IV.—Property in land historically considered . V.—Properly in land in the United States . 347 358 368 385 Book VIII.—APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY TFrigats property in land inconsistent with the best use ofland. . . , . . 0... LL. II.—How equal rights to the land may bs asserted and seered 0. , LL. LL... LL. [IT.—The proposition tried by the canons of taxation , IV.—Indorsernents and objections , . . , . 397 403 408 422 Book IX.—Errrers oF THE REMEDY L—Of the effect upon the production of wealth . . . . 433 IL.—Of the effect upon distribution and thence upon pro- duction... . , . .. , . . ,. . 440 III.—Of the effect upon individuals and classes . , , . 447 IV.—Of the changes that would be wrought in social organi- gation and social life . . . 454 Book X.—Tur Law oF HuMAN ProGrEss I.—The current theory of human i insufficiency 475 I1.—Differences in civilization—to what due Lo... 489 [II.—The law of human progress . . . 500 IV.—How modern civilization may decline 527 V.—The central truth . . . . 544 CONCLUSION The problem of individual life . . cd

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