Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy.

Bookseller Notes

Scarce. A visionary work of widespread influence and continuing relevance - the author, a journalist based in San Francisco, observed, via a visit to New York, that the advance of Capitalism tended to increase the disparity between rich and poor, and here makes proposals to address that gap, primarily relating to land value tax.Edmund Broughton Barnard owned this copy whilst at Downing College, Cambridge; from a land-owning, agricultural family, he became a Liberal politician and was knighted for services to local government in 1928.A private edition, printed for the author and 'not for publication', had appeared the previous year.