Progress and poverty

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Progress and Poverty: an investigation into the cause of industrial crises and the increase in poverty with increasing wealth (Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy) is a 1879 published Book by the American social theorist and economist Henry George . It is a treatise on the question of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why national economies show a tendency towards boom and bust cycles. George uses history and deductive logic to argue for a radical solution that focuses on gaining economic rents from commodity and land titles.

The book sold several million copies, surpassing all other books except the Bible by the 1890s. It helped spark the era of progressivism and a global social reform movement around an ideology now known as Georgism .

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• Description of the book by Metropolis-Verlag