Progress and Poverty / An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want and Increase of Wealth. -- The Remedy

George, Henry

Verlag: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1884

Beschreibung

Dated 1884 to title page, no later editions or printings mentioned. NOT ex-library. A 12mo bound in dark green cloth with blind rules to the boards and still in the original floral endpapers. Gilt titles strong to spine. Still firmly bound -- text block will close its own pages, which are moderately but evenly age-toned; not fragile. Some rub to board corners but no problem with hinges; "very good." George (1839-1897), Democrat and co-publisher of the short-lived San Francisco Daily Evening Post (1871-1875), first published "Progress and Poverty" in 1879. The book has been credited by many as giving birth to the "Progressive" movement, which seeks to use government force to transfer wealth from the more productive to the less productive, such wealth transfers at gunpoint leading inevitably to indolence, declines in productivity and entrepreneurship (since those virtues are punished), totalitarian socialism, and widespread drunkenness among the increasingly hopeless. George lost his 1886 race for Mayor of New York (where he had relocated in 1880), running on the "United Labor" ticket against 12-term Democrat U.S. congressman Abram Hewitt, though he received more votes than the Republican nominee, 28-year-old former state assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt. In "Progress and Poverty," George holds the cause of poverty rests in "private property in land," his proposed solution being to "abolish all taxation save that upon land-values." Whether Mr. George would have approved of the obvious corollary -- that if only land owners fund the government, surely only land owners should be allowed to vote -- seems unlikely. 512 pp. including the Index, followed by 8 pp. publisher's ads, including for other books first published 1883 or 1884, to include John McMaster's "History of the People of the United States . . . Volume I now ready.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011981

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Progress and Poverty / An Inquiry Into the ...

Verlag: D. Appleton and Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1884

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket