Progress and Poverty is a groundbreaking book by Henry George that discusses the correlation between economic progress and the emergence of poverty. He advocates for the implementation of a 'land value tax' as a remedy for income disparity. He also delves deep into economic theories and critiques the capitalistic society.

Titlepage

Epigraph

Imprint

Dedication

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Introductory

The Problem

I: The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency

II: The Meaning of the Terms

III: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor

IV: The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital

V: The Real Functions of Capital

Book I: Wages and Capital

I: The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support

II: Inferences from Facts

III: Inferences from Analogy

IV: Disproof of the Malthusian Theory

Book II: Population and Subsistence

I: The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—The Necessary Relation of These Laws

II: Rent and the Law of Rent

III: Of Interest and the Cause of Interest

IV: Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest

V: The Law of Interest

VI: Wages and the Law of Wages

VII: The Correlation and Coordination of These Laws

VIII: The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained

Book III: The Laws of Distribution

I: The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek

II: The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth

III: The Effect of Improvements in the Arts Upon the Distribution of Wealth

IV: Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress

Book IV: Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth

I: The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression

II: The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth

Book V: The Problem Solved

I: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated

II: The True Remedy

Book VI: The Remedy

I: The Injustice of Private Property in Land

II: The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land

III: Claim of Land Owners to Compensation

IV: Private Property in Land Historically Considered

V: Of Property in Land in the United States

Book VII: Justice of the Remedy

I: Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land

II: How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured

III: The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation

IV: Endorsements and Objections

Book VIII: Application of the Remedy

I: Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth

II: Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production

III: Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes

IV: Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life

Book IX: Effects of the Remedy

I: The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency

II: Differences in Civilization—To What Due

III: The Law of Human Progress

IV: How Modern Civilization May Decline

V: The Central Truth

Book X: The Law of Human Progress

The Problem of Individual Life

Conclusion

Progress and Poverty

Endnotes

Colophon

Uncopyright

non_fiction

economics