Progress and Poverty

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Cosimo, Inc., 1 jan 2005 - 420 pagina's
To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state, and would strive for its attainment.-Henry George, Progress and PovertyWhy do we have ups and downs in the national economy? Why does poverty continue to exist while a minute number of Americans enjoy a staggering increase in their personal wealth year after year? What went wrong in a country that professes to be dedicated to the proposition that we are all created equal?As timely now as it was when it was written in 1871, Progress and Poverty is an honest and fascinating look at the financial order and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth of life in America. George lays out simply and elegantly what the underlying problem is and how we might solve it.AUTHOR BIO: HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was a noted American economist and founder of the single-tax movement. He first outlined the doctrine in the pamphlet Our Land and Land Policy in 1871 and later wrote the more elaborate treatise Progress and Poverty (1879), which sold millions of copies all over the world.

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Correlation and Coordination of these Laws
157
The Statics of the Problem thus explained
158
OF WEALTH
162
BOOK V
187
BOOK VI
212
BOOK VII
236
BOOK VIII
282
BOOK IX
306

The real Functions of Capital
60
BOOK II
67
Inferences from Fact
75
Inferences from Analogy
94
Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
102
BOOK III
110
Rent and the Law of Rent
119
Of Interest and the cause of Interest
124
Of spurious Capital and Profits often mistaken for Interest V The Law of Interest
141
Wages and the Law of Wages
147
Of the Effect upon Individuals and Classes
316
BOOK X
335
Differences in Civilisationto what
345
How modern Civilisation may decline
373
CONCLUSION
393
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