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This book traces the cause of poverty to a widely accepted social institution, just as slavery once was, and reveals a way in which this defect could be remedied by introducing a more efficient way of funding government.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Great Enigma of Our Times; Justice is the First Quality in the Moral Hierarchy; Leo Tolstoy and Henry George; The Unflinching Service of a Holy Ecclesiastic; Henry George’s Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII; The Giving of Alms Cannot Abolish Poverty; Christian Socialism and the Labour Party; The Inadequacy of Socialistic Remedies; The Significance of Land; A Remedy for the 21st Century; The Way Forward; About the Author; Further Reading

Poverty is not Natural

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    Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
    Publication Date: 02/09/2019
    ISBN13: 9780856835254, 978-0856835254
    ISBN10: 856835250
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    Welfare economics Poverty and precarity

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book traces the cause of poverty to a widely accepted social institution, just as slavery once was, and reveals a way in which this defect could be remedied by introducing a more efficient way of funding government.

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Great Enigma of Our Times; Justice is the First Quality in the Moral Hierarchy; Leo Tolstoy and Henry George; The Unflinching Service of a Holy Ecclesiastic; Henry George’s Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII; The Giving of Alms Cannot Abolish Poverty; Christian Socialism and the Labour Party; The Inadequacy of Socialistic Remedies; The Significance of Land; A Remedy for the 21st Century; The Way Forward; About the Author; Further Reading

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