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Paperback Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age Book

ISBN: 023112001X

ISBN13: 9780231120012

Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age

(Part of the Columbia History of Urban Life Series)

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America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller,...

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