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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
by Henry George
1 episode · last mentioned 8 Jun 2026
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Nick Hanauer / Daniel Priestley in the episode with Nick Hanauer, Daniel Priestley
About the book
A treatise in political economy that examines why material progress is accompanied by persistent poverty and industrial depressions. Henry George argues that the private ownership of land is the root cause of inequality, and proposes a single tax on land values as the remedy.
