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by branchless 3945 days ago
I'm glad you asked:

http://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depression...

Progress and Poverty, by Henry George

> This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China. Henry George lived through a period of American history which witnessed the closing of the frontier, and he noticed the dramatic deterioration in the condition of labour once that happened.

Read it, it's great.