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Reframing the housing crisis

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Tinder Index

Tinder is a worldwide phenomenon of where people want to live. Henry George's Poverty and Progress was the biggest selling book, as I said, in the 1880s and 1890s. Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, all these greats thought that this was the new Bible of economics. And fascinatingly, another book that came out at the same time, we were talking about Das Kapital, right? Yeah. On a polling piece of drivel, right? What interests me is why did Henry George disappear from having been the most important book in economics at the time; Karl Marx sent it to the revolutionary throne.

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