Start here
In 1879 Henry George asked why poverty keeps pace with progress, and he answered with land. I think his answer matters again now that compute is becoming the ground everything else is built on. Pick the path that fits the time you have; each one leads naturally into the next.
-
5 minutes
The argument in ten steps
George's whole case as a chain of ten links, one for each Book, with a diagram where a picture helps and a line from George at every step.
-
About 2 hours
The short path
10 chapters that carry the argument from question to answer, with short notes on what the skipped chapters establish, so you don't lose the thread.
-
About 14 hours
The whole book
All 43 chapters of Progress and Poverty, side by side with a contemporary English version, with George's own index linked to every page.
7 minute read
Compute Is the Soil
Henry George asked why poverty advances with progress. The same question fits compute: build it or rent it, and who collects the rent?
If you have questions
- The land value tax, explained: George's remedy in plain words.
- Objections, answered: farmers, tenants, homeowners, socialism and more.
- Land is not like everything else: how economics came to file land under capital.
- Don't blame the players: Monopoly began as a Henry George lesson with two sets of rules.
- Capitalist or socialist? Where George stood, in his own words.
- Key terms: what George meant by land, rent, wages and capital.
- Memorable lines, each one ready to share.
- Look up a topic in George's own index, or search the site.