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- Title
Some Recent Academic Criticisms of Land Value Taxation: Are They Intellectually Respectable?
- Authors
Brown, Harry Gunnison
- Abstract
The article comments on land-value taxation in reference to the book "Modern Economics: Its Principles and Practices," by Justin H. Moore, William H. Steiner, Herbert Arkin and Raymond R. Colton. The authors of the book are following the conventional pattern of opposition to the basic ideas of U.S. political economist Henry George. Whether a particular piece of land in general has now a higher sale value than it had at some specific date in the past, is not the important question. The really important question is whether some must pay rent to others for permission to work on and to live on the earth in those locations which geological forces and community development have made relatively productive and livable. The contention that a panic would ensue form "the single tax" is reminiscent of the contention often made by Republican politicians just before and after the turn of the century, regarding "Democratic free trade." For the fact that the authors are definitely opposed to the land-value-tax program is made sufficiently clear in their chapter on rent and elsewhere. Thus, they refer to George's "Progress and Poverty" as having "received wide acclaim from socialists."
- Subjects
UNITED States; REAL property tax; MODERN Economics: Its Principles &; Practices (Book); MOORE, Justin H. (Justin Hartley), b. 1884; STEINER, William H.; ARKIN, Herbert; COLTON, Raymond R.; GEORGE, Henry, 1839-1897; SINGLE tax
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1946, Vol 5, Issue 4, p521
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1946.tb01838.x