Progress and Poverty

Death of the Middle Class: Billionaire vs Entrepreneur DEBATE - Daniel Priestley v Nick Hanauer

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, 8 June 2026. The book comes up at 17 min 48 sec in.

A speaker describes Henry George's 1879 book as 'the first book about the rich stealing from the poor' and claims it was the bestseller in the history of the United States. The mention sets up a story about how wealthy interests responded by funding the development of the Theory of Marginal Productivity to counter its ideas.

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