The course Poverty, Inequality & the Environment (ENVP U6250), taught by Professor Mary Cleveland, focuses on Henry George's worldwide bestseller, Progress and Poverty, in which he argues that owners of land and other natural resources gain most of the benefits of economic growth, driving down wages and forcing economic activity to sprawl out onto marginal land. Today, George's ideas powerfully influence both the field of ecological economics and common movements and provide a good foundation for our students.
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