Progress and poverty : an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth : the remedy
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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
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Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Facsim. of ed. published: London : C. Kegan Paul, 1881 (Progress and poverty : an inquiry...). Liverpool : H. Young, 1884 ("Progress and poverty : a reply...). London : J. Clarke, [1883?] (The bitter cry of outcast London)
Includes index (Progress and poverty : an inquiry...)
Contents of Works
- "Progress and poverty : a reply to Mr. Henry George / by Isaac B. Cooke
- The bitter cry of outcast London : an inquiry into the condition of the abject poor / [Andrew Mearns]
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Henry George (1839-97) was an American journalist and newspaper editor. In Progress and Poverty, his most famous work (1879), he seeks to explain the apparent paradox that the gulf between rich and poor in a developed city (or nation) is much less that that in a less developed community: 'Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege.' His economic ideas were widely debated, and this volume also contains a response to the 1881 English edition of the book from Isaac B. Cooke, a cotton broker from Liverpool, and Andrew Mearns's The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883), a short but telling description of the reality of the poverty then to be found in the world's richest city.
Table of Contents
- Introductory
- 1. Wages and capital
- 2. Population and subsistence
- 3. The laws of distribution
- 4. Effect of material progress upon the distribution of wealth
- 5. The problem solved
- 6. The remedy
- 7. Justice of the remedy
- 8. Application of the remedy
- 9. Effects of the remedy
- 10. The law of human progress
- Conclusion
- 'Progress and Poverty': a reply to Mr Henry George
- The bitter cry of outcast London.
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