Progress and Poverty, by Henry George: A Review
Bob Drake's abridged P&P is online at http://www.progressandpoverty.org/ and http://www.henrygeorge.org/, and MP3's are at http://hgchicago.org/audio.
I agree with the writer that the original can be a bit daunting, though I've come to find it pleasurable reading.
Subtitle: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy
I’ve just nearly finished another reading of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. This time, instead of the unabridged fourth edition, which I’ve read several times, I’m using the simplified edited and abridged version by Bob Drake, published by the Schalkenbach Foundation.
This last simplified version lacks some of the prosaic beauty of George’s original verse, but it is also far easier for those who want to initially expose themselves to his revolutionary and progressive ideas to comprehend and assimilate.
I am once again impressed that this self-educated man was one of the handful of greatest thinkers our world has ever produced. By 1879 he had recognized economic laws and principles that the greatest of western political economists had not seen, and still have not seen to this day.
Henry George is the Isaac Newton of economic thought. One day this will be self-evident and universally recognized. For the time his great and potentially lifesaving insights will have to await economic catastrophe and collapse before they are widely seen for the enormous truths they contain. Rather than say more about the power of his piercing intellect and wisdom, this excerpt might say it better than I could ...
I’ve just nearly finished another reading of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. This time, instead of the unabridged fourth edition, which I’ve read several times, I’m using the simplified edited and abridged version by Bob Drake, published by the Schalkenbach Foundation.
This last simplified version lacks some of the prosaic beauty of George’s original verse, but it is also far easier for those who want to initially expose themselves to his revolutionary and progressive ideas to comprehend and assimilate.
I am once again impressed that this self-educated man was one of the handful of greatest thinkers our world has ever produced. By 1879 he had recognized economic laws and principles that the greatest of western political economists had not seen, and still have not seen to this day.
Henry George is the Isaac Newton of economic thought. One day this will be self-evident and universally recognized. For the time his great and potentially lifesaving insights will have to await economic catastrophe and collapse before they are widely seen for the enormous truths they contain. Rather than say more about the power of his piercing intellect and wisdom, this excerpt might say it better than I could ...
Bob Drake's abridged P&P is online at http://www.progressandpoverty.org/ and http://www.henrygeorge.org/, and MP3's are at http://hgchicago.org/audio.
I agree with the writer that the original can be a bit daunting, though I've come to find it pleasurable reading.
Money can't save US from this awful crisis
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