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Progress and Poverty

Henry George

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Essays
READING TIME
About 14.1 hours
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An explanation on why increased productivity has not led to increased wages, and how the application of a single land value tax can fix this and lead to a more just society.

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Epigraph
  3. Imprint
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Preface to the Fourth Edition
  7. Progress and Poverty
    1. Introductory
    2. Epigraph
    3. The Problem
    4. Book I: Wages and Capital
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency
      3. II: The Meaning of the Terms
      4. III: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor
      5. IV: The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
      6. V: The Real Functions of Capital
    5. Book II: Population and Subsistence
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
      3. II: Inferences from Facts
      4. III: Inferences from Analogy
      5. IV: Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
    6. Book III: The Laws of Distribution
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—The Necessary Relation of These Laws
      3. II: Rent and the Law of Rent
      4. III: Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
      5. IV: Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
      6. V: The Law of Interest
      7. VI: Wages and the Law of Wages
      8. VII: The Correlation and Coordination of These Laws
      9. VIII: The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
    7. Book IV: Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
      3. II: The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
      4. III: The Effect of Improvements in the Arts Upon the Distribution of Wealth
      5. IV: Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
    8. Book V: The Problem Solved
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
      3. II: The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
    9. Book VI: The Remedy
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
        1. I: From Greater Economy in Government
        2. II: From the Diffusion of Education and Improved Habits of Industry and Thrift
        3. III: From Combinations of Workmen
        4. IV: From Cooperation
        5. V: From Governmental Direction and Interference
        6. VI: From a More General Distribution of Land
      3. II: The True Remedy
    10. Book VII: Justice of the Remedy
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Injustice of Private Property in Land
      3. II: The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
      4. III: Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
      5. IV: Private Property in Land Historically Considered
      6. V: Of Property in Land in the United States
    11. Book VIII: Application of the Remedy
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
      3. II: How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
      4. III: The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
        1. I: The Effect of Taxes Upon Production
        2. II: As to Ease and Cheapness of Collection
        3. III: As to Certainty
        4. IV: As to Equality
      5. IV: Endorsements and Objections
    12. Book IX: Effects of the Remedy
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
      3. II: Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
      4. III: Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
      5. IV: Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
    13. Book X: The Law of Human Progress
      1. Epigraph
      2. I: The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency
      3. II: Differences in Civilization—To What Due
      4. III: The Law of Human Progress
      5. IV: How Modern Civilization May Decline
      6. V: The Central Truth
    14. Conclusion
      1. Epigraph
      2. The Problem of Individual Life
  8. Endnotes
  9. Colophon
  10. Uncopyright

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2020-11-30
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-04
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