Progress and PovertyCosimo, Inc., 1 de gen. 2005 - 420 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
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Wages not drawn from Capital but produced by Labour | 38 |
The maintenance of Labourers not drawn from Capital | 53 |
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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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions ... Henry George Visualització completa - 1925 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 13 - So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Pàgina 12 - And, unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten the burdens of those compelled to toil.
Referències a aquest llibre
For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the ... Herman E. Daly Previsualització limitada - 1994 |