Progress and Poverty

An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy

Henry George (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2018
Lulu.com (Verlag)
978-1-387-99786-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2018
Verlagsort	Morrisville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Steuern / Steuererklärung
	Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-387-99786-6 / 1387997866
ISBN-13	978-1-387-99786-2 / 9781387997862
Zustand	Neuware