Progress and Poverty Centenary Edition

An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth...the Remedy

Henry George believed that "(t)he people must think because the people alone can act." This classic bestseller in political economy launched a worldwide movement with a unique strategy to abolish privilege and poverty.

Many economists and politicians foster the illusion that great fortunes and poverty stem from the presence or absence of individual skill and risk-taking. Henry Geor...