Progress and Poverty (Summarized Edition)

In Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II, Henry George tackles the puzzle of rising wealth amid persistent want. In lucid, polemical prose that fuses moral philosophy with political economy, he reworks classical theories of rent, wages, and interest, indicts speculative landholding, and advances the single tax on land values. Set against Gilded Age depressions, the work moves from diagnosis to in...