Progress and Poverty - The Complete Works of Henry George

"Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event. The life and thought of no one capable of understanding it can be quite the same after reading it." - Emma Lazarus In this landmark text, Henry George lays out his study of questions of why poverty partners with economic and technological progress. His theory of single land tax proposed in this book was so influential it spurred progressive economic reform. Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His 1879 work Prog