Progress and Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Progress and Poverty write by Henry George. This book was released on 1898. Progress and Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Essence of Progress and Poverty
The Essence of Progress and Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essence of Progress and Poverty write by Henry George. This book was released on 2020-04-15. The Essence of Progress and Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this concise text, the distinguished American philosopher John Dewey compiled excerpts from the massive Progress and Poverty to provide those unfamiliar with Henry George's work with the essence of the author's thinking on economics. In his Foreword, Dewey noted, "It would require less than the fingers of the two hands to enumerate those who from Plato down rank with [George]. No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great American thinker." Fifteen brief chapters feature passages from George's highly influential book and examine why poverty persists throughout periods of economic and technological progress as well as the basis for economic cycles of boom and bust.
The Crime of Poverty
The Crime of Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crime of Poverty write by Henry George. This book was released on 1918. The Crime of Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Corruption of Economics
The Corruption of Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Corruption of Economics write by Mason Gaffney. This book was released on 2006. The Corruption of Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Condemning the post-industrial economy to protracted periods of economic failure, this thought-provoking book documents how the integrity of economics as a discipline was deliberately compromised in the United States towards the end of the 19th century. Several chairs of economics were funded at leading universities to rebrand economics to justify unearned income. The tools for this strategy became neo-classical economics, and, unlike classical economists like Adam Smith who described wealth as the product of three factors--land, labor, and capital--the new theorists reduced these to two: labor and capital, thus treating land as capital. This concealed the benefits enjoyed by those in receipt of the rent from land. The effect, the authors reveal, was to deprive professional economists of the ability to diagnose problems, forecast important trends, and prescribe solutions.
The Annotated Works of Henry George
The Annotated Works of Henry George - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Annotated Works of Henry George write by Francis K. Peddle. This book was released on 2017-03-02. The Annotated Works of Henry George available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of The Annotated Works of Henry George assembles all his major works for the first time with new introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material, and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for scholars and reformers. Volume II of this series presents the unabridged text of Progress and Poverty, arguably the most influential work of Henry George. The original text is supplemented by notes which explain the changes George made during his lifetime and the many references he made to history, literature, economics, and public policy. A new index augments accessibility to the text and key terms. The introductory essay, “The Rhetoric and the Remedy,” by series co-editor William S. Peirce, provides an overview of the historical context for George’s philosophy of economics and summarizes the argument of Progress and Poverty within the framework of the economic theories of his day. It then looks at some of the early reactions by leading economists and opinion makers to George’s fervent and eloquent call for economic justice. Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty in order to identify and resolve the great paradox of modern industrial life. How was it possible for abject poverty, financial instability, and extreme economic inequality to co-exist with rising productivity and technological progress? He analyzed and rejected the widely held beliefs that poverty inevitably followed from the laws of economics or from a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest. George concluded that at the heart of this dilemma was how society treated natural resources, especially urban land. He did not succumb to the panacea of arbitrarily confiscating property or taking from the rich to give to the poor. George argued that taxes on productive labor and capital should be drastically reduced. His “sovereign remedy” declared that public goods could be adequately funded from the returns to land and other natural resources. The activities of society as a whole give land its value. It is therefore both equitable and efficient for the community to tax or recapture land values to support the activities of government.
