An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth...the Remedy Henry George believed that "(t)he people must think because the people alone can act." This classic bestseller in political economy launched a worldwide movement with a unique strategy to abolish privilege and poverty. Many economists and politicians foster the illusion that great fortunes and poverty stem from the presence or absence of individual skill and risk-taking. Henry George, by contrast, showed that the wealth gap occurs because a few people are allowed to monopolize natural opportunities and deny them to others. George did not advocate equality of income, the forcible redistribution of wealth, or government management of the economy. He simply believed that in a society not burdened by the demands of a privileged elite, a full and satisfying life would be attainable by everyone. (Originally published in 1879.) Abridged version.

Progress and Poverty abridged: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth...the Remedy

Biographies & Memoirs

George, Henry

Leaders & Notable People

Robert Schalkenbach Foundation

"Social Statics is decidedly and unashamedly a liberal document -- a classical liberal document. As such, it concerns the quality and equality of liberty. When first written in 1850, Herbert Spencer was a young rising star in the classical liberal tradition that included John Locke, Adam Smith, Tom Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, and would reach its flowering with John Stuart Mill and Henry George. This tradition, in decline throughout the twentieth century, was kept alive by a coterie of Georgists and rejuvenated by latter-day libertarians. "Like the discrediting of social idealism as 'utopian', liberal philosophers who base their analysis on natural law are dismissed as 'old fashioned' and 'nineteenth century.' Let us look beyond such derisions and consider George's reminder to University of California students in 1877: 'Macaulet has well said, if any large pecuniary interest were concerned in denying the attraction of gravitation, that most obvious of physical facts would not lack disputers.' "The book you are about to explore deals not with gravity but with those other natural laws that have been disputed for millenia -- because their acceptance within any society would dethrone the mighty, exalt the lowly, and "proclaim liberty throughout all the land." -- From the Foreward by Mark Sullivan

Social Statics: The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and The First of Them Developed

Politics & Social Sciences

Herbert, Spencer

Philosophy

De la tierra devastada a la tierra prometida: Teología de la liberación para un mundo postmarxista (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Andelson, Robert V

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Viewpoint and Counterviewpoint on the Need for Land Reform This new edition of the 1884 original brings together these important writings of Henry George: his famous essay on the Irish land question, his response to Scottish Duke of Argyll's critique, and his incisive analysis of Pope Leo XIII's influential encyclical, Rerum Novarum. (The full text of papal encyclical is also included.)

The Land Question: viewpoint and counter viewpoint on the need for land reform

Business & Money

Real Estate

Henry George believed that "(o)f all the sciences, political economy is that which to civilized men of today is of most practical importance." In his last work, George presents economic principles in a logical, encyclopedic system, encompassing concepts of wealth, ownership, value, money and semantics.  This highly accessible abridged edition has an introduction by Harry Pollard and an afterword by Lindy Davies.

The Science of Political Economy (abridged): A Reconstruction of Its Principles in Clear and Systematic Form

Economics

Protection or Free Trade - Abridged

Henry, George

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

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy

Latin American Political Guide: A Quarter Century of Latin American Politics

James L. Busey

Politics & Government

"The people must think because the people alone can act." - Henry George The classic bestseller in political economy launched a worldwide movement with a unique strategy to abolish privilege and poverty.

A Perplexed Philosopher: An Examination of Herbert Spencer's Utterances on the Land Question

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