{"product_id":"progress-and-poverty-an-inquiry-into-the-cause-of-industrial-dep","title":"Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Dep","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Progress and Poverty, economist Henry George scrutinizes the connection between population growth and distribution of wealth in the economy of the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe initial portions of the book are occupied with refuting the demographic theories of Thomas Malthus, who asserted that the vast abundance of goods generated by an economy's growth was spent on food. Consequently the population rises, keeping living standards low, poverty widespread, and starvation and disease common.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eHenry George had a different attitude: that poverty could be solved and economic progress preserved. To prove this, he draws upon decades of data which show that the increase in land prices restrains the amount of production on said land; business owners thus have less to pay their workers, with the result being mass poverty especially within cities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44598018605217,"sku":"9781387997855","price":54.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/19e46y5j-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1725405882","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/progress-and-poverty-an-inquiry-into-the-cause-of-industrial-dep","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}