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Simply the Best.......2004-05-17
I won't go into too much detail - the other reviewers have said it so eloquently and accurately. I believe this is one of the best books ever written and ranks up there with Shakespeare, the bible and Mozart in the sense that it is almost perfect in both artistic and literary form, yet it is a book aimed at solving the economic woes faced by modern civiliasations. For anyone under the opinion that political economy is the dismal science, no doubt in part due to cynics such as Maynard Keynes, Marx etc., and the modern econimc rationalist outlook, this book will be enlightening and uplifting. if you read this book it will change your life.
As timely in 2003 as it was when it was written.......2003-12-02
Progress & Poverty is the missing puzzle piece for those of us who look around at the combination of magnificent and accelerating technological progress and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth in America, with many people lacking sufficient income to meet their most basic needs, and wonder what went wrong in a country which professes to be dedicated to the proposition that we're all created equal.
The book's subtitle -- An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy -- describes it beautifully: why we have the ups and downs of our economy, which cause incredible human misery, and why we have increasing poverty at the same time that there is hugely increasing wealth.
And Henry George provides a logical and workable -- even elegant -- remedy, one which will untangle many of the perverse incentives we cope with today: we say we value work, but we tax it. We say we want to promote sales, but we tax them. We say we want to encourage entrepreneurial effort, but we allow huge barriers designed to discourage the person with an idea from being able to execute it. We say we want a society that naturally creates more jobs, but we allow a relative few of us to pocket the funds which would create those jobs. We say we value initiative, but we reward the "dog in the manger" far more than we reward the laborer. We say that urban blight is a bad thing, but our tax code encourages it. We say we dislike urban sprawl, and long commutes, and low wages -- but we've failed to implement the simple tax reform that will correct these ills. We work longer hours than our counterparts in other countries, and have less to show for it. We allow a relative few to own our airwaves, and resell them at higher and higher prices, collecting advertising revenues from all who would run for public office or advertise their products.
If we truly mean to end poverty, to reward initiative, to ensure that the next child born in America is truly the equal of all who are here today, to ensure that our environment is protected for the common good, George's framework for understanding provides the missing puzzle piece.
And as we consider what sort of country we'd like Iraq to be, it is worth considering that if we only give them a constitution without giving them an economic system that considers all people equal, truly equal, we've not accomplished much with the American lives we've lost there.
If we can figure it out for Iraq, with all its oil wealth, maybe we can figure out how to share America justly among Americans, too.
George lays out simply and elegantly what the underlying problem is and how to solve it.
He dedicates the book "To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment." Might you be among those who see and feel, and would strive, if only you could see the source of the problem?
Churchill, Twain, Huxley, Shaw and many others came to see what George was pointing out. Will you?
This one is worth your time!
Get a copy for yourself, and send one to your favorite legislator, be he/she local, state or federal. Then start looking for other Georgists, also known as Geoists. You'll find them a lively group with a vision that might inspire you, too. And it is refreshing to be with people who seek a finer society, not more advantage or privilege -- "private law" -- for their own benefit!
It changed my life.......2001-06-19
People do not argue with the teaching of George, they simply do not know it. And it is impossible to do otherwise with his teaching, for he who becomes acquainted with it cannot but agree.
Why isn't this book better known?.......2000-09-08
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this book, written over a hundred years ago, is the accuracy of the predictions that Henry George made on what would happen if solutions other than the one he proposed would be followed. The only alternative to his sollution which he said would also work to reduce the difference between rich and poor was the use of government regulation. This has to some extent been taken up in all countries of the world, and while it has indeed slowed the processes which Henry George described, it has led to exactly the problem he predicted. "For instance, to take one of the simplest and mildest of the class of measures...--a graduated tax on incomes. The object at which it aims is good; but this means involves the employment of a large number of officials clothed with inquisitorial powers; temptations to bribery, and perjury, and all other means of evasion, which beget a demoralization of opinion, and ptu a premium upon unscrupulousness and a tax upon conscience..." That seems to be a pretty good descrition of civic life today.
When I have mentioned Henry George, the usual answer has been "Who?" Those who had heard of him mostly thought that his ideas only applied to agrarian societies. In fact, he recognized that land was only one (though the most fundamental) form of monopoly, and he makes it clear that he included all monopolies, not just land, into the realm of the rights of the community rather than a private owner. In this day, he would certainly hhave comments about how the airwaves have been distributed, for example.
The main surprise to me about this book is how completely unknown it has become. Anyone who reads this with an open mind will be convinced by Henry George's arguments.
Still Relevant.......2000-08-16
Reviewing classics is always an iffy proposition. I've certainly learned more about the land tax from other sources than from this book. The book also can't give you any idea of how his ideas are being applied today, and the fact that modern Georgists talk about taxing pollution and other "economic bads", in a natural outgrowth from George's ideas. Similarly, reading John Locke won't give you an idea of what the United States government is like. Still it's worth reading for seeing where the ideas come from. And on that basis, this is a great book.
Although the point of this book is the ideas, and I think it's besides the point to criticize writing style when discussing nonfiction, George's florid prose and tendency to offer a dozen analogies to drive home each point make currently available abridgements of Progress and Poverty a reasonable alternative.
Customer Reviews:
As relevant in 2003 as in 1879!.......2003-12-05
Progress & Poverty is the missing puzzle piece for those of us who look around at the combination of magnificent and accelerating technological progress and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth in America, with many people lacking sufficient income to meet their most basic needs, and wonder what went wrong in a country which professes to be dedicated to the proposition that we're all created equal.
The book's subtitle -- An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy -- describes it beautifully: why we have the ups and downs of our economy, which cause incredible human misery, and why we have increasing poverty at the same time that there is hugely increasing wealth.
And Henry George provides a logical and workable -- even elegant -- remedy, one which will untangle many of the perverse incentives we cope with today: we say we value work, but we tax it. We say we want to promote sales, but we tax them. We say we want to encourage entrepreneurial effort, but we allow huge barriers designed to discourage the person with an idea from being able to execute it. We say we want a society that naturally creates more jobs, but we allow a relative few of us to pocket the funds which would create those jobs. We say we value initiative, but we reward the "dog in the manger" far more than we reward the laborer. We say that urban blight is a bad thing, but our tax code encourages it. We say we dislike urban sprawl, and long commutes, and low wages -- but we've failed to implement the simple tax reform that will correct these ills. We work longer hours than our counterparts in other countries, and have less to show for it. We allow a relative few to own our airwaves, and resell them at higher and higher prices, collecting advertising revenues from all who would run for public office or advertise their products.
If we truly mean to end poverty, to reward initiative, to ensure that the next child born in America is truly the equal of all who are here today, to ensure that our environment is protected for the common good, George's framework for understanding provides the missing puzzle piece.
And as we consider what sort of country we'd like Iraq to be, it is worth considering that if we only give them a constitution without giving them an economic system that considers all people equal, truly equal, we've not accomplished much with the American lives we've lost there.
If we can figure it out for Iraq, with all its oil wealth, maybe we can figure out how to share America justly among Americans, too.
George lays out simply and elegantly what the underlying problem is and how to solve it.
He dedicates the book "To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment." Might you be among those who see and feel, and would strive, if only you could see the source of the problem?
Churchill, Twain, Huxley, Shaw and many others came to see what George was pointing out. Will you?
This one is worth your time!
Get a copy for yourself, and send one to your favorite legislator, be he/she local, state or federal. Then start looking for other Georgists, also known as Geoists. You'll find them a lively group with a vision that might inspire you, too. And it is refreshing to be with people who seek a finer society, not more advantage or privilege -- "private law" -- for their own benefit! --
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1894 edition by William Reeves, London.
Customer Reviews:
As relevant in 2005 as in 1879 -- .......2004-12-28
Progress & Poverty is the missing puzzle piece for those of us who look around at the combination of magnificent and accelerating technological progress and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth in America, with many people lacking sufficient income to meet their most basic needs, and wonder what went wrong in a country which professes to be dedicated to the proposition that we're all created equal.
The book's subtitle -- An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy -- describes it beautifully: why we have the ups and downs of our economy, which cause incredible human misery, and why we have increasing poverty at the same time that there is hugely increasing wealth.
And Henry George provides a logical and workable -- even elegant -- remedy, one which will untangle many of the perverse incentives we cope with today: we say we value work, but we tax it. We say we want to promote sales, but we tax them. We say we want to encourage entrepreneurial effort, but we allow huge barriers designed to discourage the person with an idea from being able to execute it. We say we want a society that naturally creates more jobs, but we allow a relative few of us to pocket the funds which would create those jobs. We say we value initiative, but we reward the "dog in the manger" far more than we reward the laborer. We say that urban blight is a bad thing, but our tax code encourages it. We say we dislike urban sprawl, and long commutes, and low wages -- but we've failed to implement the simple tax reform that will correct these ills. We work longer hours than our counterparts in other countries, and have less to show for it. We allow a relative few to own our airwaves, and resell them at higher and higher prices, collecting advertising revenues from all who would run for public office or advertise their products.
If we truly mean to end poverty, to reward initiative, to ensure that the next child born in America is truly the equal of all who are here today, to ensure that our environment is protected for the common good, George's framework for understanding provides the missing puzzle piece.
And as we consider what sort of country we'd like Iraq to be, it is worth considering that if we only give them a constitution without giving them an economic system that considers all people equal, truly equal, we've not accomplished much with the American lives we've lost there.
If we can figure it out for Iraq, with all its oil wealth, maybe we can figure out how to share America justly among Americans, too.
George lays out simply and elegantly what the underlying problem is and how to solve it.
He dedicates the book "To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment." Might you be among those who see and feel, and would strive, if only you could see the source of the problem?
Churchill, Twain, Huxley, Shaw and many others came to see what George was pointing out. Will you?
This one is worth your time!
Get a copy for yourself, and send one to your favorite legislator, be he/she local, state or federal. Then start looking for other Georgists, also known as Geoists. You'll find them a lively group with a vision that might inspire you, too. And it is refreshing to be with people who seek a finer society, not more advantage or privilege -- "private law" -- for their own benefit! --
Customer Reviews:
Awesome Book!.......2002-10-25
This is the best book for those of you looking into the paralegal profession. It helped me land my first paralegal job. A must buy!
The Most Complete Paralegal Job Search "How-to" Available.......2000-06-30
Andrea Wagner tells you everything you need to know to get your first paralegal job. Everything. This honest and to-the-point book offers examples of everything you'll need for your job search and detailed information about how to use each piece of paper and each opportunity. The practical advice on where to look for jobs, who to talk to when you find them and how to dress for the big day are critical. The list of probable interview questions along with potential responses to difficult or inappropriate questions will give you confidence, and the advice on how to negotiate better compensation will enable you to get what you're worth. Wagner also provides an impressive list of legal buzzwords that will help you sound like an old-timer once you are on the job. If you're serious about getting your first paralegal job, do yourself a favor. Buy this book.
Excellent resource for paralegals of all experience levels.......1999-06-30
In my job as Career Development Coordinator for a major ABA-approved paralegal school, I frequently recommend this book to current students and graduates alike. I recommend it to new paralegals as a step-by-step guide to finding a job, and to experienced paralegals as a great tool for making sure that your job-search skills are as sharp as your legal skills.
Greatly improve your employment prospects: Use this resource.......1999-05-24
I loaned this book to a friend who had trouble finding decent paralegal employment. Within 7 days, she had 2 quality offers. I referred her to the chapters on networking, job searches, the interview, and salary negotiation strategies. I also included a separate salary survey. So the book paid immediate dividends for my friend. I also refer to the book frequently. I just completed paralegal school and still use the book for the resume and cover letter information. This book reads easily, cover all of the pertinent subjects, and is useful from the time a paralegal career and education are being considered, untilyour first year in your new job. Experienced paralegals should find all of the chapters relating to job hunting very useful and updated. However, I do have a problem, that is I don't have enough copies to loan to my friends. The book is only helpful when used, though. If you choose to let it collect dust, you will not receive the full benefits of all of the tested tips and advice.
Jeff Sparks Paralegal Tomorrow
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The Information Age: Technology, Learning and Exclusion in Wales
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The development and exploitation of technology has long been at the core of Welsh economic and social life, and has assumed even greater significance over the last few decades with the emergence of so many new technologies. This book critically examines the challenges Wales faces in reinventing itself as a competitive e-nation. While the authors suggest that small countries will lose out if they fail to adopt appropriate strategies for lifelong learning and embrace new technologies, they also offer research that indicates the shortcomings of relying on technology alone to promote knowledge and social inclusion. It considers how it is possible for a small country to have a distinct IT strategy in an increasingly globalized economy by producing practical conclusions for policymakers and practitioners.
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Not by Money Alone: Economics as Nature Intended
Malcolm Slesser , and
Jane King
Manufacturer: Jon Carpenter Publishing
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Arguing that globalization has created a disparity of wealth among nations, this treatise offers a new vision of international collaboration in which the principles of market forces can be harnessed to create a just society. The modern obsession with money is deconstructed to reveal that the contributions of individuals and the natural world are undervalued. A system of "natural capital accounting" is offered as a new measurement in which the basis of economic decision-making is shifted from money to science and scientific realities.
Customer Reviews:
A Very Important Book.......2005-06-30
I cannot believe more people with an interest in the way our affairs are conducted, particularly those who are concerned about the implications of global warming, oil, gas and water
depletion, not to mention the perilous state of our fiat money systems and the ever-growing debt mountain, have not discovered this book.
The authors' thinking and their presentation of those thoughts is eminently clear and readable (even to someone with no education in either economics or science like myself).
The solutions they propose are simple and pragmatic - excitingly so. It is a hopeful and inspiring book - and I never thought I would find myself saying that about an Economics book!
It is a quick easy read. Every politician, and the economists who advise them should read it, and examine their thoughts.
For anyone interested in clearer thinking about the environment and economics, Slesser and King, have come up with an answer and simple methods to apply that answer. I urge you to read it, and put your thoughts here.
Nature's constraints.......2002-11-11
This is an excellent book which exposes the limitations of money as the sole way of ordering economic affairs. Very readable and thought provoking, it details the use of energy as the way forward in understanding the merit of different courses of action facing societies. It makes a compelling argument for the changes which will be necessary if the world is to prosper in the future and introduces the concept of "suoming" in which countries would have the ability to buy and sell the rights to use energy. Anyone interested in the great issues facing our planet should read this book.
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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