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Progress and Poverty

by Henry George · 1879

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This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China.

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povertypovertyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 598 pages

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