Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged

Progress and Poverty by Henry George, Volume One - Unabridged Why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement and many others of great influence: Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Leo Tolstoy, to name but a few. His analyses and proposals are referred to as "Georgism". This is the first commercially available audiobook version of this landmark work. Albert Einstein wrote: "Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation." Soon after its publication, over three million copies of Progress and Poverty were bought, ex