All Posts Tagged With: "Henry George"
The American Land Question
Widespread landownership long supported a kind of liberal-republican independence. Perhaps we should reexamine the nexus and ask ourselves how, in Donald Davidson’s words, we “let the freehold pass,” and whether that was really for the best.
10Jun2009 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 6 comments | ContinuedPatents and Monopoly Privilege
Christopher Mayer is a commercial loan officer and freelance writer. “Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but [...]
1Oct2000 | Christopher Mayer | 1 comment | ContinuedAlbert Jay Nock: A Gifted Pen for Radical Individualism
American individualism had virtually died out by the time Mark Twain was buried in 1910. Progressive intellectuals promoted collectivism. Progressive jurists like Oliver Wendell Holmes hammered constitutional restraints as an inconvenient obstacle to expanding government power, supposedly the cure for every social problem.
1Mar1997 | Jim Powell | 1 comment | ContinuedA Powerful Case for Free Trade
While Adam Smith presented the best-known practical case for free trade, the most powerful rhetorical case came from Henry George in his book Protection or Free Trade (1886). Here are some of the most memorable passages: Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons, and their object is the same—to prevent [...]
1Jun1996 | Henry George | 2 comments | Continued-
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