Progress & Poverty: an Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy

摘要: This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and persistence poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy Sun Yat-sen China. Henry George lived through a period American history which witnessed closing frontier, he noticed dramatic deterioration condition labour once that happened. While land freely available wages were high, enclosed fell. Adam Smith appears not to have appreciated full consequences this, but writing before their horror became evident form landless peasants crowding city slums, seeking "satanic mills" at minimum wages. George, observing similar events America (he journalist), saw connection between enclosure unemployment. He also realized harmful effects could be rectified, without confiscating land, change tax system allowing market forces work. offers alternative ethical practical guide time when collapse Marxist/Socialist experiment deep recession West leave many fresh inspiration.