Progress and PovertyCosimo, Inc., 2006 M10 1 - 420 páginas Why do we have ups and downs in the national economy? Why does poverty continue to exist while a minute number of Americans enjoy a staggering increase in their personal wealth year after year? What went wrong in a country that professes to be dedicated to the proposition that we are all created equal? As timely now as it was when it was written in 1871, Progress and Poverty is an honest and fascinating look at the financial order and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth of life in America. George lays out simply and elegantly what the underlying problem is and how we might solve it. HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was a noted American economist and founder of the single-tax movement. He first outlined the doctrine in the pamphlet Our Land and Land Policy in 1871 and later wrote the more elaborate treatise Progress and Poverty (1879), which sold millions of copies all over the world. |
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Wages not drawn from Capital but produced by Labour | 38 |
The maintenance of Labourers not drawn from Capital | 53 |
The real Functions of Capital | 60 |
BOOK II | 67 |
Wages and the Law of Wages | 147 |
Correlation and Coordination of these Laws | 157 |
PAGE | 162 |
BOOK V | 187 |
BOOK VI | 212 |
BOOK VII | 236 |
APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY | 282 |
BOOK IX | 306 |
Inferences from Fact | 75 |
Inferences from Analogy | 94 |
Disproof of the Malthusian Theory | 102 |
BOOK III | 110 |
Rent and the Law of Rent | 119 |
Of spurious Capital and Profits often mistaken for Interest | 136 |
BOOK X | 335 |
Differences in Civilisationto what | 345 |
How modern Civilisation may decline | 373 |
The Problem of Individual Life | 393 |
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Página 12 - And, unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten the burdens of those compelled to toil.