This classic bestseller in political economy launched a worldwide movement for the abolition of privilege and poverty -- by eliminating the root cause, land monopoly. Ever since the publication of Progress and Poverty, advocates of liberty and justice have responded to its clarion call: "To abolish all taxation save that upon land values. Today, as policy-makers around the world consider ways to fairly and efficiently allocate access to Earth's precious resources, Progress and Poverty takes on new and increasing relevance.

Henry George's Progress And Poverty
Notes By Mason Gaffney

"The progress of civilization requires that more and more intelligence be devoted to social affairs, and this not the intelligence of the few, but that of the many. We cannot safely leave politics to politicians, or political economy to college professsors. The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act." (Social Problems, Chapter I, "The Increasing Importance of Social Questions".) Many readers consider this collection of twenty-two essays to be the best introduction to the ideas of Henry George.