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The Progress and Poverty Institute

Founded	1925
Founder	Robert Schalkenbach
Type	501(c)(3)
Focus	Social and economic justice
Location	Princeton, New Jersey - United States
Revenue	$922,853 in 2018[1]
Endowment	$17,876,695 in 2018[1]
Website	schalkenbach.org

TheProgress and Poverty Institute, founded in 1925 as theRobert Schalkenbach Foundation, is a private operating foundation dedicated to the social and economic philosophy ofHenry George through publication and research.^[2] Among its activities, the Institute publishesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, funds the Henry George Chair in Economics atSt. John's University, and supports the Henry George Lecture Series at theUniversity of Scranton.

The organization was founded in 1925 to promote public awareness of the social and economic philosophy ofHenry George and keep his works in print.^[3][4] It is the oldestGeorgist organization in existence,^[5] and actively supports Georgist ideas such asland value taxation,^[6][7] as well ascarbon pricing,^[8][9]zoning reform,^[10][11]community land trusts^[12][13] anduniversal basic income.^[14][15]

The institute, in partnership withWiley Publishing, sponsorsThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology.^[16][17] Founding editor Will Lissner, who served from 1941 to 1989, was assisted for many years by Dorothy Burnham Lissner.^[18] Subsequenteditors-in-chief include Frank C. Genovese,^[19]Laurence S. Moss (1997–2009),^[20] Clifford W. Cobb, and Richard H. Cebula (2022-).^[21]

In 1986, the Institute funded the Henry George Chair in Economics at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business ofSt. John's University. Holders of the named chair include Northrup Buechner (1981–1991), Joseph A. Giacallone (1991–2019) and Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan (2019-).^[22][23]

The Society also supports the Henry George Lecture Series, a public lecture series on economics held annually since 1986 at theUniversity of Scranton. A number of lecturers from the series have subsequently won the Nobel Prize.^[24][4]

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.^[25]

The organization's executive director is Josie Faass.^[26] Past directors have included economistsMason Gaffney andNicolaus Tideman.^[27]

As of 2021^[update] the Institute receives grants from theFrancis Neilson Trust Fund. It holds approximately $18 million in assets.^[28]

• Progress and Poverty by Henry George
• Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed byHerbert 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 byMax Hirsch
• Why Global Poverty?: A Companion Guide to the Film The End of Poverty? byClifford Cobb
• New Life In Old Cities by Mason Gaffney
• The Science of Political Economy by Henry George

• Sponsor ofThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology

• The End of Poverty?^[29][30][31]

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