Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

xx, 571 pp. "In this classic work, Henry George examines causes of the growing wealth divide between the wealthy and poor. Progress and Poverty is a treatise on why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress, why it occurs more in cities and why economies exhibit a tendency towards a boom and bust cycle. He uses reason and examples throughout history to provide a solution based on a land tax."