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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy

George, Henry

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EconomicsInvesting & FinanceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1911405071
ISBN13: 9781911405078
Publisher: Aziloth Books
Published: Aug 10 2016
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Born in 1839, Henry George learned about poverty early in life, first as a boy-sailor and afterwards by working as a type-setter with a wife and children to support. A talented writer, he gradually rose to become managing editor of the San Francisco Times, and later set up his own crusading journal, the San Francisco Daily Evening Post, only to see his newspaper crushed by the combined power of the press and telegraphic monopolies. Undaunted, George set himself the task of explaining a universal economic conundrum - why does a country's increasing prosperity always result in the most abject poverty for the lowest strata of society? Untrained in economics, he came to the subject with fresh eyes: I had no theory to support, no conclusions to prove. Only, when I first realized the squalid misery of a great city, it appalled and tormented me, and would not let me rest, for thinking of what caused it and how it could be cured.

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