This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1884 edition by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London.
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"Born in Philadelphia in 1839, Henry George went on to San Francisco and became a newspaper ediÂtor who addressed the social problems of his day. On a visit to New York, he was shocked by the contrast between wealth and poverty. He resolved to find a solution, if he could, and the result was Progress and Poverty in 1879, which is said to be the all-time best selling book on economics. George's fame led him to be drafted by the United Labor Party to run for Mayor of New York in 1886. George lost to Abram Hewitt (and Theodore Roosevelt came in third). He traveled and lectured extenÂsively around the world, and wrote several more influential books, inÂcluding Social Problems, Protection or Free Trade (which was read in its entirety into the US ConÂgressional Record) and The Condition of Labor, an open letter to Pope Leo XIII in response to his encyclical Rerum Novarum. George died in 1897 at the height of his second campaign for Mayor of New York. His last book, The Science of Political Economy, was published the following year."
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This book is still very relivant,
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This review is from: Social Problems (Paperback)
Henry George was a brilliant economist that was well known at the turn of the century that unfortunatly has been largely forgotten- This book makes some wonderfull points about the causes of poverty
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An amazing book from 1883 which speaks truth to 21st century matters,
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This book is worth your time. Read the essays in any order, and marvel at the vision of the author in seeing 125+ years ago problems we live with today. Or mourn that he could see so clearly in 1883, and we haven't pursued the wisdom of his clear vision. But this book, along with its sibling, Progress & Poverty (1879, and a new abridgment in 2006 by Bob Drake) can give you new lenses with which to see our Social Problems, and, most important, tools with which to fix what is amiss.
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THERE come moments in our lives that summon all our powers-when we feel that, casting away illusions, we must decide and act with our utmost intelligence and energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public misfortunes, railway business, fifty bushels, bare living Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Great Britain, Declaration of Independence, San Francisco, Jay Gould, General Government, New World, Duke of Westminster, National Assembly of France, New England, Robinson Crusoe New!
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THERE come moments in our lives that summon all our powers-when we feel that, casting away illusions, we must decide and act with our utmost intelligence and energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public misfortunes, railway business, fifty bushels, bare living Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Great Britain, Declaration of Independence, San Francisco, Jay Gould, General Government, New World, Duke of Westminster, National Assembly of France, New England, Robinson Crusoe New!
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