The introductory epigraph from the poet Lydia Sigourney describes the plight of the wandering tribes of Israel "whom the desert devoured in their sin." In a chapter on "Inferences from Analogy", the author disputes the idea that humans are like counterparts in the vegetable and animal kingdom in matters of reproduction, trying to contend that humans are not bound in a Malthusian trap. In a section on "Improvements in the Arts", the author describes the effects of technological improvement on the demand for labor, while earlier the author conten
The introductory epigraph from the poet Lydia Sigourney describes the plight of the wandering tribes of Israel "whom the desert devoured in their sin." In a chapter on "Inferences from Analogy", the author disputes the idea that humans are like counterparts in the vegetable and animal kingdom in matters of reproduction, trying to contend that humans are not bound in a Malthusian trap. In a section on "Improvements in the Arts", the author describes the effects of technological improvement on the demand for labor, while earlier the author contends that wages and interest are necessarily positively related, in a section on "The Law of Interest." Arguing that the "remedy" for increasing inequality can only be found through regulating capital, this ideas for this work were first laid out in the author's earlier essay "Our Land and Land Policy." FTP, identify this work that argued for a common tax on land, written by Henry George.
The introductory epigraph from the poet Lydia Sigourney describes the plight of the wandering tribes of Israel "whom the desert devoured in their sin."
Progress and Poverty