- Spell out how H. George uses the Lockean argument for private property to argue against private property in land.
- How does H. George suggest that we can “reconcile the stability of tenure, required for improvement, with a full and complete recognition of the equal rights of all to the use of land”? What does this imply, in practical terms?
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy
| Author: | Henry George |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0914016601 |
| Publication Info: | New York : Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1979. |
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 Poverty Why 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.
Gabriel Martinez on Dec 16, 2008