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Economía · En inglés · 1879

Progress and Poverty

Henry George

Henry George explica por qué la pobreza crece junto al progreso y propone el impuesto sobre la tierra, idea que hizo de este libro un éxito mundial.

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There must be refuge! Men Perished in winter winds till one smote fire From flint stones coldly hiding what they held, The red spark treasured from the kindling sun; They gorged on flesh like wolves, till one sowed corn, Which grew a weed, yet makes the life of man; They mowed and babbled till some tongue struck speech, And patient fingers framed the lettered sound. What good gift have my brothers, but it came From search and strife and loving sacrifice?

Never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world’s wide fallow; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands, from hill and mead, Reap the harvests yellow.

The views herein set forth were in the main briefly stated in a pamphlet entitled “Our Land and Land Policy,” published in San Francisco in 1871. I then intended, as soon as I could, to present them more fully, but the opportunity did not for a long time occur. In the meanwhile I became even more firmly convinced of their truth, and saw more completely and clearly their relations; and I also saw how many false ideas and erroneous habits of thought stood in the way of their recognition, and how necessary it was to go over the whole ground.

Índice

  1. 01I New York: Doubleday and Mcclure Company 1898
  2. 02Chapter I.—The current theory of human progress—its insufficiency 473
  3. 03Chapter I. The Current Doctrine of Wages—Its Insufficiency
  4. 04Chapter II. The Meaning of the Terms
  5. 05Chapter III. Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor (1/2)
  6. 06Chapter III. Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor (2/2)
  7. 07Chapter IV. The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
  8. 08Chapter V. The Real Functions of Capital
  9. 09Chapter I. The Malthusian Theory, its Genesis and Support
  10. 10Chapter II. Inferences from Facts (1/2)
  11. 11Chapter II. Inferences from Facts (2/2)
  12. 12Chapter III. Inferences from Analogy
  13. 13Chapter IV. Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
  14. 14Chapter VIII.—The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
  15. 15Chapter I. The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—The Necessary Relation of These Laws
  16. 16Chapter II. Rent and the Law of Rent
  17. 17Chapter III. Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
  18. 18Chapter IV. Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
  19. 19Chapter V. The Law of Interest
  20. 20Chapter VI. Wages and the Law of Wages
  21. 21Chapter VII. The Correlation and Co-Ordination of These Laws
  22. 22Chapter VIII. The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
  23. 23Chapter I. The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
  24. 24Chapter II. The Effect of Increase of Population upon the Distribution of Wealth
  25. 25Chapter III. The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth
  26. 26Chapter IV. Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
  27. 27Chapter I. The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
  28. 28Chapter II. The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
  29. 29Chapter I. Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated (1/2)
  30. 30Chapter I. Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated (2/2)
  31. 31Chapter II. The True Remedy
  32. 32Chapter I. The Injustice of Private Property in Land
  33. 33Chapter II. The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
  34. 34Chapter III. Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
  35. 35Chapter IV. Private Property in Land Historically Considered
  36. 36Chapter V. Of Property in Land in the United States
  37. 37Chapter I. Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
  38. 38Chapter II. How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
  39. 39Chapter III. The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
  40. 40Chapter IV. Indorsements and Objections
  41. 41Chapter I. Of the Effect upon the Production of Wealth
  42. 42Chapter II. Of the Effect upon Distribution and Thence upon Production
  43. 43Chapter III. Of the Effect upon Individuals and Classes
  44. 44Chapter IV. Of the Changes that Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
  45. 45Chapter I. The Current Theory of Human Progress—Its Insufficiency
  46. 46Chapter II. Differences in Civilization—To What Due
  47. 47Chapter III. The Law of Human Progress (1/2)
  48. 48Chapter III. The Law of Human Progress (2/2)
  49. 49Chapter IV. How Modern Civilization May Decline
  50. 50Chapter V. The Central Truth (1/2)
  51. 51Chapter V. The Central Truth (2/2)

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