Progress and Poverty
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:57 pm
Why I looked at this book
Progress and Poverty sold over 3 million copies, and Alfred Russell Wallace thought it to be the most important book of the 19th Century (more important than Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species or Karl Marx's Das Kapital). Also Joseph Stiglitz has made a persuasive case of why Henry George's idea of a land rent is a very efficient way of for the state to raise money. So I thought I ought to read this book.