This work's opening chapter ponders "the great enigma of our times," which the author identifies as the association of the titular phenomena.
This work's opening chapter ponders "the great enigma of our times," which the author identifies as the association of the titular phenomena. This work's sixth chapter is dedicated in part to the refutation of Malthusian theory, which the author claims "exonerates the rich," and cites the famines in India in opposition to it. Beginning with some definitions of capital, this work remarks that "all capital is wealth, but not all wealth is capital," while chapter 14, using the example of "the island of free opportunity," investigates the persistence of the second titular concept "amidst advancing wealth." Another chapter links the causes of industrial depressions to the denial of equal access to land, while chapter 18 approvingly cites the Physiocrats. Best known for its claim of the primacy of land to economic activity, FTP, name this 1879 book, the most famous work of Henry George.
This work's opening chapter ponders "the great enigma of our times," which the author identifies as the association of the titular phenomena.
Progress and Poverty