Profits Progress And Poverty

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781596051508

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Progress and Poverty by Henry George Pdf

To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state, and would strive for its attainment. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty Why do we have ups and downs in the national economy? Why does poverty continue to exist while a minute number of Americans enjoy a staggering increase in their personal wealth year after year? What went wrong in a country that professes to be dedicate As timely now as it was when it was written in 1871, Progress and Poverty is an honest and fascinating look at the financial order and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth of life in America. George lays out simply and elegantly AUTHOR BIO: HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was a noted American economist and founder of the single-tax movement. He first outlined the doctrine in the pamphlet Our Land and Land Policy in 1871 and later wrote the more elaborate treatise Progress and Poverty (1879), whi

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600075802

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Progress and poverty by Henry George Pdf

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1911405071

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Progress and Poverty by Henry George Pdf

Why does increasing prosperity result in increasing poverty? In this book Henry George shows that labour and capital work in tandem, but that landowners contribute nothing yet take much of the profit as rent. George proposed abolishing all taxes except for those on land. Required reading for anyone concerned with modern-day disparities in wealth.

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Economics
ISBN : OXFORD:590410531

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Progress and poverty by Henry George Pdf

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822004771929

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Progress and Poverty by Henry George Pdf

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015000902214

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Progress and Poverty by Henry George Pdf

Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435015646359

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Progress and Poverty by Henry George Pdf

Author : Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039600445

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Profits, Progress, and Poverty by Richard S. Newfarmer Pdf

Case studies of multinational enterprises in Latin America, especially the economic implications for economic development - discusses foreign investment, industrial structure, market access, etc. And their reinforcement of economic disparities, with reference to the tobacco industry, the electrical industry, the iron and steel industry, the motor vehicle industry, the tire industry (rubber industry), the pharmaceutical industry, the tractor industry, and the (food processing) food industry. Bibliography, statistical tables.

Author : Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : International business enterprises
ISBN : UCSD:31822003509031

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Profits, Progress, and Poverty by Richard S. Newfarmer Pdf

Case studies of multinational enterprises in Latin America, especially the economic implications for economic development - discusses foreign investment, industrial structure, market access, etc. And their reinforcement of economic disparities, with reference to the tobacco industry, the electrical industry, the iron and steel industry, the motor vehicle industry, the tire industry (rubber industry), the pharmaceutical industry, the tractor industry, and the (food processing) food industry. Bibliography, statistical tables.

Author : Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610391603

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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo Pdf

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

Author : Matthew Desmond
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780553447453

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Evicted by Matthew Desmond Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama • The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • The New Yorker • Bloomberg • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Fortune • San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • The Week • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Booklist • Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Edward O'Donnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231539265

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Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality by Edward O'Donnell Pdf

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.

Author : David Ricardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Economics
ISBN : OXFORD:300151240

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On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo Pdf

Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318004

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Globalization and Poverty by Ann Harrison Pdf

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780855985936

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From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green Pdf

Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.