Kyle Harrison
to-read
Progress and Poverty
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth
- Author
- Henry George
- Published
- 1879
- Pages
- 568
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: George’s argument that rising productivity is captured by landowners rather than labour or capital, and that the remedy is to tax land values — the founding text of Georgism and the most-read economics book of its century.
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @WillManidis — in the thread under his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2025).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Land Value Tax · Economics · City Building — where this sits in the corpus.