RECIPROCITY, PRODUCTIVITY, AND POVERTY
No technological reason exists for poverty in the modem industrial economy. This fact has long been recognized in the United States by economists who have written about an "economy of abundance" since the 1930's when Stuart Chase, apparently, coined the phrase. This is recognized today in the frequent references made to George's enigma of poverty midst progress. Certainly the state of the industrial arts is still the primary cause of poverty in the non-industrial countries. But those which now have the most advanced industrial arts have the capability of eliminating utter degrading poverty. The Scandinavian countries may well have done so. In recognition of this fact the United States has been engaged in a "war on poverty" since 1964, which some people would