Table of contents - Special Issue: Henry George as social economist and radical reformer
Guest Editors: Francis K. Peddle
The hidden taxable capacity of land: enough and to spare
Mason GaffneyA tax based on land value is in many ways ideal, but many economists dismiss it by assuming it could not raise enough revenue. Standard sources of data omit much of the potential…
George, Wicksell and Gaffney: a three‐factor model of the boom and bust cycle
Mary M. ClevelandThe purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast three‐factor models of boom and bust from Henry George, Knut Wicksell and Mason Gaffney.
Benjamin Franklin's principles of political economy: a speculative inquiry
Edward J. DodsonThe purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which Benjamin Franklin's understanding of political economy was shaped by his association with the French school of writers…
Justice and Mr George: What Henry George knew, what the neoclassicists forgot, and why it matters
John C. MédailleHenry George was acclaimed by the general public and disdained by the professional economists, largely for the same reasons. For the general public, progress, and poverty seemed…
Henry George, John Rae, and the theory of capital in a rapidly transforming economy
William PeirceThe purpose of this paper is to establish a historical context for the often maligned capital theory of Henry George within a North American frontier tradition that includes John…
World‐ownership, self‐ownership, and equality in Georgist philosophy
Darrel MoellendorfThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the accounts of self‐ and world‐ownership in the social philosophy of Henry George, and a Georgist social theorist Nicolaus Tideman.
The case for geoliberalism: a reply to Moellendorf
Nicolaus TidemanThe purpose of this paper is to explain the virtues (despite Moellendorf's criticisms) of the geoliberal framework of social justice, which assumes that people have rights to…
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- Professor Terence Garrett