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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 - Couverture souple

George, Henry

 
9781387997862: Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy
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ISBN 10 : 1387997866 ISBN 13 : 9781387997862
Editeur : Lulu.com, 2018

Synopsis

In Progress and Poverty, economist Henry George scrutinizes the connection between population growth and distribution of wealth in the economy of the late nineteenth century. The initial portions of the book are occupied with refuting the demographic theories of Thomas Malthus, who asserted that the vast abundance of goods generated by an economy's growth was spent on food. Consequently the population rises, keeping living standards low, poverty widespread, and starvation and disease common. Henry George had a different attitude: that poverty could be solved and economic progress preserved. To prove this, he draws upon decades of data which show that the increase in land prices restrains the amount of production on said land; business owners thus have less to pay their workers, with the result being mass poverty especially within cities.

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Éditeur
Lulu.com
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1387997866
ISBN 13 
9781387997862
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
Coordonnées du fabricant
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