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1888 Biography of Henry George - 1839-1897 Political economist, b. in Philadelphia, 2 Sept. 1839. He went to sea at an early age, and, reaching California in 1858, remained there, becoming finally a journalist. In 1879 he published “Progress and Poverty,” which was issued in the following year in New York and London, and soon acquired a world-wide reputation. This book is “an inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth,” in which the previously held doctrines as to the distribution of wealth and the tendency of wages to a minimum are examined and reconstructed. In the fact that rent tends to increase not only with increase of population but with all improvements that increase productive power, Mr. George finds the cause of the well-
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