Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2835

Typed page of advertising for PROGRESS & POVERTY REVIEWED

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Though property in land is a free society’s crucial, decisive barrier against savagery and slavery, that institution is perennially assaulted by the reformers and self-selected saviors of mankind. Henry George’s long influential PROGRESS AND POVERTY — an ingenious denigration of the institution of property in land — has remained largely undenounced, and even uncriticized, through the years.

Now … noted socionomist Spencer Heath has written a definitive review of PROGRESS AND POVERTY that does two things. First, it exposes its false premises and fallacies. Secondly, it goes on to disclose the vitally necessary functions which private property in land performs. The chief present function of private property is to keep the distribution of the earth’s surface out of the hands of politicians. “Strongly recommended reading,” is what John Chamberlain calls Spencer Heath’s PROGRESS AND POVERTY REVIEWED.