Written while its author was working as editor of the Oakland Transcript, it went through more than 100 editions.
Written while its author was working as editor of the Oakland Transcript, it went through more than 100 editions. Its author elaborated its thesis in six successive books, as well as in his own weekly, The Standard. One of its central tenets is that in heavily populated areas, the increasing value of terrain can be attributed to the community, not the landholder. It defines rent as the price that labor must pay for the opportunity to use its own power, which is caused by social progress promoting an unequal distribution of wealth. The offered solution to this inequality is a single land tax in, FTP, what economic treatise by Henry George.
Written while its author was working as editor of the Oakland Transcript, it went through more than 100 editions.
{Progress and Poverty}