Progress And Poverty: An Inquiry Into The Cause Of Industrial Depressions And Of Increase Of Want With Increase Of Wealth, The Remedy (1904)

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 proposi...