Progress and Poverty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Progress and Poverty, credited to Henry George, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. Read by Tim Makarios. What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived by the school of Smith and Ricardo to the truth perceived by the schools of Proudhon and Lasalle; to show that laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to a realization of the noble dreams of socialism; to identify social law with moral law, and to disprove ideas which in the minds of many cloud grand and elevating perceptions. (Summary by Henry George)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Progress and Poverty
• Author credits: Henry George
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 18:39:13

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• economy
• political economy
• land ownership
• civilization
• culture
• wealth
• land

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 00 - Frontmatter, How the Book Came To Be Written, and Preface — 23:49
2. 01 - Introductory — 22:04
3. 02 - Book I, Chapter 1: The Current Doctrine of Wages - Its Insufficiency — 26:42
4. 03 - Book I, Chapter 2: The Meaning of the Terms — 37:49
5. 04 - Book I, Chapter 3: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor - paragraphs 1-25 — 28:20
6. 05 - Book I, Chapter 3: Wages Not Drawn from Capital, but Produced by the Labor - paragraphs 26-38 — 14:20
7. 06 - Book I, Chapter 4: The Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn from Capital — 18:04
8. 07 - Book I, Chapter 5: The Real Functions of Capital — 17:44
9. 08 - Book II, Chapter 1: The Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support — 25:28
10. 09 - Book II, Chapter 2: Inferences from Facts - paragraphs 1-19 — 21:31
11. 10 - Book II, Chapter 2: Inferences from Facts - paragraphs 20-40 — 34:42
12. 11 - Book II, Chapter 3: Inferences from Analogy — 21:15
13. 12 - Book II, Chapter 4: Disproof of the Malthusian Theory — 22:51
14. 13 - Book III, Chapter 1: The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution - The Necessary Relation of These Laws — 23:38
15. 14 - Book III, Chapter 2: Rent and the Law of Rent — 16:26
16. 15 - Book III, Chapter 3: Of Interest and the Cause of Interest — 31:43
17. 16 - Book III, Chapter 4: Of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken for Interest — 12:08
18. 17 - Book III, Chapter 5: The Law of Interest — 17:02
19. 18 - Book III, Chapter 6: Wages and the Law of Wages — 26:09
20. 19 - Book III, Chapter 7: The Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws — 4:24
21. 20 - Book III, Chapter 8: The Statics of the Problem Thus Explained — 7:22
22. 21 - Book IV, Chapter 1: The Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek — 6:12
23. 22 - Book IV, Chapter 2: The Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth — 27:52
24. 23 - Book IV, Chapter 3: The Effect of Improvements in the Arts upon the Distribution of Wealth — 21:45

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