Progress and Poverty by Henry George (1839 - 1897)

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What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived by the school of Smith and Ricardo to the truth perceived by the schools of Proudhon and Lasalle; to show that laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to a realization of the noble dreams of socialism; to identify social law with moral law, and to disprove ideas which in the minds of many cloud grand and elevating perceptions. (Summary by Henry George)

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  • 00 - Frontmatter, How the Book Came To Be Written, and Preface
    – 00:23:48
  • 01 - Introductory
    – 00:22:04
  • 02 - Book I, Chapter 1: The Current Doctrine of Wages - Its Insufficiency
    – 00:26:42
  • 03 - Book I, Chapter 2: The Meaning of the Terms
    – 00:37:49
  • 04 - Book I, Chapter 3: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor - paragraphs 1-25
    – 00:28:19
  • 05 - Book I, Chapter 3: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor - paragraphs 26-38
    – 00:14:20
  • 06 - Book I, Chapter 4: The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital
    – 00:18:03
  • 07 - Book I, Chapter 5: The Real Functions of Capital
    – 00:17:44
  • 08 - Book II, Chapter 1: The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
    – 00:25:28
  • 09 - Book II, Chapter 2: Inferences from Facts - paragraphs 1-19
    – 00:21:30
  • 10 - Book II, Chapter 2: Inferences from Facts - paragraphs 20-40
    – 00:34:42
  • 11 - Book II, Chapter 3: Inferences from Analogy
    – 00:21:14
  • 12 - Book II, Chapter 4: Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
    – 00:22:51
  • 13 - Book III, Chapter 1: The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution - The Necessary Relation of These Laws
    – 00:23:37
  • 14 - Book III, Chapter 2: Rent and the Law of Rent
    – 00:16:25
  • 15 - Book III, Chapter 3: Of Interest and the Cause of Interest
    – 00:31:43
  • 16 - Book III, Chapter 4: Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest
    – 00:12:08
  • 17 - Book III, Chapter 5: The Law of Interest
    – 00:17:01
  • 18 - Book III, Chapter 6: Wages and the Law of Wages
    – 00:26:09
  • 19 - Book III, Chapter 7: The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws
    – 00:04:24
  • 20 - Book III, Chapter 8: The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
    – 00:07:21
  • 21 - Book IV, Chapter 1: The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
    – 00:06:11
  • 22 - Book IV, Chapter 2: The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
    – 00:27:51
  • 23 - Book IV, Chapter 3: The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth
    – 00:21:45
  • 24 - Book IV, Chapter 4: Effect of the Expectation Raised by Material Progress
    – 00:11:25
  • 25 - Book V, Chapter 1: The Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
    – 00:38:53
  • 26 - Book V, Chapter 2: The Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
    – 00:29:17
  • 27 - Book VI, Chapter 1: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated - paragraphs 1-22
    – 00:23:11
  • 28 - Book VI, Chapter 1: Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated - paragraphs 23-54
    – 00:37:34
  • 29 - Book VI, Chapter 2: The True Remedy
    – 00:04:52
  • 30 - Book VII, Chapter 1: The Injustice of Private Property in Land
    – 00:30:10
  • 31 - Book VII, Chapter 2: The Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property in Land
    – 00:22:35
  • 32 - Book VII, Chapter 3: Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
    – 00:20:53
  • 33 - Book VII, Chapter 4: Property in Land Historically Considered
    – 00:35:24
  • 34 - Book VII, Chapter 5: Of Property in Land in the United States
    – 00:20:38
  • 35 - Book VIII, Chapter 1: Private Property in Land Inconsistent with the Best Use of Land
    – 00:12:33
  • 36 - Book VIII, Chapter 2: How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
    – 00:11:12
  • 37 - Book VIII, Chapter 3: The Proposition Tried by the Canons of Taxation
    – 00:28:44
  • 38 - Book VIII, Chapter 4: Indorsements and Objections
    – 00:16:15
  • 39 - Book IX, Chapter 1: Of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
    – 00:13:36
  • 40 - Book IX, Chapter 2: Of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
    – 00:14:06
  • 41 - Book IX, Chapter 3: Of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
    – 00:13:50
  • 42 - Book IX, Chapter 4: Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
    – 00:37:43
  • 43 - Book X, Chapter 1: The Current Theory of Human Progress - Its Insufficiency
    – 00:29:35
  • 44 - Book X, Chapter 2: Differences in Civilization - To What Due
    – 00:33:47
  • 45 - Book X, Chapter 3: The Law of Human Progress - paragraphs 1-21
    – 00:16:27
  • 46 - Book X, Chapter 3: The Law of Human Progress - paragraphs 22-47
    – 00:29:36
  • 47 - Book X, Chapter 4: How Modern Civilization May Decline
    – 00:36:12
  • 48 - Book X, Chapter 5: The Central Truth
    – 00:18:53
  • 49 - Conclusion: The Problem of Individual Life
    – 00:22:43
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