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What people say about Progress & Poverty

The greatest economic treatise ever written by an American
-- Michael Kinsley, in the Wall Street Journal, March 5, 1987

Share nature, charge for damage, don't steal wages.
-- Progress & Poverty in eight words, based on Fred Foldvary.

Other assessments of Henry George and his ideas

Look at this seven-part compilation of evaluations of George and his ideas, at the School of Cooperative Individualism. Or this extensive collection elegantly presented by our Australian friends at Earthsharing.

Or see a couple of our favorites below.

The economic premises of Henry George cannot be successfully challenged; they are based on common observation and knowledge. . .Henry George was a great economist— the first to look for causes of poverty and the first to find the major cause— but Henry George was much more than an economist.  He was a philosopher, a complete humanitarian, an incorruptible personality, an idealist who believed in man’s personal and social capacity for infinite improvement and he was a prophet of the same class as the prophets of old in the Holy Scriptures. 
— Preston Bradley, “Henry George, Biblical Morality and Economic Ethics” in
American Journal of Economics and Sociology
, July, 1980.
Politicians are urgently looking for believable, just, and practical methods of taxation.  This is exactly what Henry George offers.
— John D. Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury
(from the foreward to From Wasteland to Promised Land)



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