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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth

Henry George · D. Appleton and Company · 1880

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Book
Author
Henry George
Reliability notes
First privately printed edition, San Francisco, 1879; New York edition 1880.

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EstablishedHenry George proposed in Progress and Poverty (1879) that land rent should be taken for public revenue through a tax on land value. He finished second in the 1886 New York mayoral election, ahead of Theodore Roosevelt; Fairhope, Alabama was founded in 1894 on Georgist land leases.