# Progress and Poverty

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- Book: [Progress and Poverty](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-george/progress-and-poverty) ([Progress and Poverty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-george/progress-and-poverty.md))
- Authors: [Henry George](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-george)
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- ISBN: 978-04-8684-208-0
- Pages: 624
- Published: 2020-08-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

First published in 1879, this was 19th-century America''s bestselling book (aside from the Bible), and it was the most popular work on economics ever published anywhere. Author Henry George proposes a " single tax" that would tax the value of land as a source of public revenue. His ideas were fundamental to America''s Progressive Era from the 1890s through the 1920s, and they influenced many major political figures.