Progress and Poverty Institute

The organization was founded in 1925 to promote public awareness of the social and economic philosophy of Henry George and keep his works in print.{{cite web |last1=Clancy |first1=Robert |title=The Single Tax in the Encyclopedia Americana |url=https://hgarchives.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/e2809cthe-single-taxe2809d-reprinted-from-the-encyclopedia-americana-1957.pdf |website=Henry George School|date=1957}}{{cite web |title=Henry George History |url=https://www.scranton.edu/academics/ksom/eco-fin/henry-george/index.shtml |website=The University of Scranton |language=en}} It is the oldest Georgist organization in existence,{{cite web |author-first=Pat |author-last=Aller |date=2004 |website=Wealth and Want |url=http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/Aller_RSF.html|title=Some Background on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation}} and actively supports Georgist ideas such as land value taxation,{{cite news |last1=Allen |first1=Taylor |title=A ‘progressive’ approach to taxing land gains traction in Philly Council |url=https://whyy.org/articles/a-progressive-approach-to-taxing-land-gains-traction-in-philly-council/ |work=WHYY |date=May 4, 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Bollier |first1=David |title=Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth |date=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-94482-3 |page=244 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3MZg8INjAQC&pg=PA244 |language=en}} as well as carbon pricing,https://schalkenbach.org/pricing-carbon-is-a-magic-job-machine/https://schalkenbach.org/the-principles-and-policies-of-green-georgism-lvt-carbon-tax-ecotax-reform/ zoning reform,https://schalkenbach.org/zoning-has-been-weaponized/https://schalkenbach.org/the-economics-of-land-use-controls/ community land trustshttps://schalkenbach.org/an-explainer-and-case-study-on-municipal-land-trusts-featuring-the-upper-harbor-redevelopment-in-minneapolis-minnesota/https://schalkenbach.org/municipal-land-trusts/ and universal basic income.https://schalkenbach.org/rsf-backs-basic-income-as-antidote-to-social-and-economic-fragmentation/https://schalkenbach.org/exploring-universal-basic-income-and-its-implementation/

The Institute, in partnership with Wiley Publishing, sponsors The American Journal of Economics and Sociology.{{cite web|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+American+Journal+of+Economics+and+Sociology-p-9780JRNL57459|title=The American Journal of Economics and Sociology |website= John Wiley & Sons, Inc.}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/1536-7150.00069 |title=On the Origins of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology: Its Purposes and Objectives |year=2001 |last1=Lissner |first1=Will |journal=American Journal of Economics and Sociology |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=423–433}} Founding editor Will Lissner, who served from 1941 to 1989, was assisted for many years by Dorothy Burnham Lissner.{{cite journal |title=Will and Dorothy Lissner retire from AJES |journal=Footnotes |date=1989|publisher=The American Sociological Association |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=5 |url=https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/asa.01.1989_0.pdf}} Subsequent editors-in-chief include Frank C. Genovese,{{cite web |title=Frank Genovese Obituary (1921 - 2014) - Boston, MA - The Wellesley Townsman |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wickedlocal-wellesley/name/frank-genovese-obituary?id=18152809 |website=Legacy.com |access-date=10 September 2023}} Laurence S. Moss (1997-2009),{{cite journal|last1=Ahiakpor|first1=James|title=Laurence Steven Moss, 1944-2009: A Biographical Sketch|journal=Laurence S. Moss, 1944-2009: Academic Iconoclast, Economist and Magician|date=2010|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Malden, MA|page=25}} Clifford W. Cobb, and Richard H. Cebula (2022-).{{cite web |title=New Editor-in-chief for the AJES |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15367150 |website=American Journal of Economics and Sociology |access-date=10 September 2023|date=2022}}

In 1986, the Institute funded the Henry George Chair in Economics at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business of St. John's University. Holders of the named chair include Northrup Buechner (1981-1991), Joseph A. Giacallone (1991-2019) and Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan (2019-).{{cite web |title=The Henry George Chair in Economics |url=https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/schools/peter-j-tobin-college-business/departments-centers-and-faculty-research/henry-george-chair-economics |website=St. John's University |access-date=10 September 2023 |language=en |date=26 November 2019}}{{cite news |title=Leading Economist Discusses Future of the Dollar during Henry George Lecture |url=https://www.stjohns.edu/news-media/news/2022-11-03/leading-economist-discusses-future-dollar-during-henry-george-lecture |work=St. John's University |date=November 3, 2022 |language=en}}

The Society also supports the Henry George Lecture Series, a public lecture series on economics held annually since 1986 at the University of Scranton. A number of lecturers from the series have subsequently won the Nobel Prize.{{cite news |last1=D’Mello |first1=Alison |title=Scranton Holds Annual Henry George Lecture |url=https://news.scranton.edu/articles/2021/11/sc-henry-george.shtml |work=Royal News |publisher=University of Scranton |date=Nov 30, 2021 |language=en}}

The Progress and Poverty Institute, along with the Center for the Study of Economics, co-sponsors the Center for Property Tax Reform (CPTR), a nonprofit for research into property taxes.{{cite web |last1=Newell |first1=Bill |title=CPTR: IS A LAND VALUE TAX RIGHT FOR RICHMOND, VIRGINIA? |url=https://commongroundorwa.org/cptr-is-a-land-value-tax-right-for-richmond-virginia/ |website=Common Ground OR-WA |date=22 January 2023}}

The organization's executive director is Josie Faass.{{cite news |last1=Sontag |first1=L. L. |title=Guest: Josie Faass, executive director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation and co-director of the Center for Property Tax Reform |url=https://www.utopianurbanism.com/p/guest-josie-faass-executive-director#details |work=Space is a Means of Production: Living Metropolis |date=1 August 2022 |language=en}} Past directors have included economists Mason Gaffney and Nicolaus Tideman.{{cite journal |last1=Tideman |first1=Nicolaus |title=Peace, Justice, and Economic Reform.: The 1997 Henry George Lecture |journal=American Journal of Economics and Sociology |date=October 1997 |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=671–683 |doi=10.1111/j.1536-7150.1997.tb02665.x}}

{{As of|2021}} the Institute receives grants from the Francis Neilson Trust Fund. It holds approximately $18 million in assets.{{Cite web|last=Roberts|first=Ken Schwencke, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Alec Glassford, Andrea Suozzo, Brandon|date=2013-05-09|title=ROBERT SCHALKENBACH FOUNDATION INC - Form Form 990-PF for period ending Jun 2020 - Nonprofit Explorer|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/131656331/06_2021_prefixes_06-13/131656331_202006_990PF_2021061718376023|access-date=2022-01-25|website=ProPublica|language=en}}

• Progress and Poverty by Henry George
• Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed by Herbert Spencer
• Land title origins, a tale of force and fraud by Alfred Noblit Chandler
• Protection or Free Trade by Henry George
• Crumbling Foundations: how faulty institutions create world poverty by David Smiley
• Rent as Public Revenue: Issues and Methods by Lindy Davies, Gilbert Herman, et al.
• Democracy Versus Socialism: A Critical Examination of Socialism as a Remedy for Social Injustice and an Exposition of the Single Tax Doctrine by Max Hirsch
• Why Global Poverty?: A Companion Guide to the Film The End of Poverty? by Clifford Cobb
• New Life In Old Cities by Mason Gaffney
• The Science of Political Economy by Henry George

• Sponsor of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology

• The End of Poverty?{{Cite news|last=Dugan|first=Ianthe Jeanne|date=2013-03-18|title=It's a Lonely Quest for Land-Tax Fans, But, by George, They Press On|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826704578354733775359470.html|access-date=2022-01-25|issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite news|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|date=2009-11-13|title=Breaking Down Economic Breakdown|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/movies/13endofpoverty.html|access-date=2022-01-25|issn=0362-4331}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903943/| title=The End of Poverty?| website=IMDb}}

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