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 saw it: A reply to @WillManidis’s question on X, June 2, 2025 — “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/willmanidis/status/1929527399718269081
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.