July 19, 2013
New SEP Entry on Thomas Paine
I was surprised – and pleased – to learn yesterday that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new entry up on Thomas Paine. The entry came as a surprise because,…
Posts filed under Henry George
April 25, 2012
Progress or Poverty: The Economics of Land and Discovery
David Friedman recently wrote “One reason to respect natural rights is that it is a good thing to do, another is that respecting them can be expected to produce a…
April 25, 2012
The Geolibertarian Ethics of Land Rent
I coined the term “geolibertarian” in 1981 to designate the branch of libertarian philosophy which deems the natural rent to equally belong to human beings. Public finance theory prescribes land…