Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice." - Albert Einstein "in Henry George's philosophy a rare beauty and power of inspiration, and a splendid faith in the essential nobility of human nature." - Helen Keller No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great American thinker... It is the thorough fusion of insight into actual facts and forces, with recognition of their bearing upon what makes human life worth living, that constitutes Henry George one of the world's great social philosophers. - John Dewey