abstract:Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy was written by Henry George in 1879. The book is a treatise on the cyclical nature of an industrial economy and its remedies.
Hundreds of indicators are used to measure progress in areas such as education,health,poverty, the environment and trade.
VOA: special.2010.04.26
The claim that it could replace all taxes is reminiscent of the proponents of Land Value Taxation, the idea that Henry George outlined in ProgressandPoverty.
But more than any other nation, the United States of America has underwritten global security for over six decades -- a time that, for all its problems, has seen walls come down, and markets open, and billions lifted from poverty, unparalleled scientific progressand advancing frontiers of human liberty.