Re: anti-Georgist rant

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:29:30 GMT

<royls@telus.net> wrote in message news:40de53e0.46361426@news.telus.net...
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:55:02 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> ><royls@telus.net> wrote in message
news:40ddeb23.19543768@news.telus.net...
> >> On 26 Jun 2004 10:26:46 -0700, ruetheday@outgun.com (Rue The Day)
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> So, why don't you read something new (you can google the people I
have
> >> >> listed in previous posts--also look at work by Ed Mills (the father
of
> >> >> modern urban economic), Dennis Capozza, Pete Colwell and John Kain.
If
> >after
> >> >> that your religious fervor for Henry George remains in tact, so be
it.
> >> >
> >> >Appeal to authority? I hate it when people say "go look up what this
> >> >expert has to say, he backs me up" rather than just paraphrasing the
> >> >argument.
> >>
> >> Especially when they give not only no url, but no titles. And FWIW,
> >> ISTR demolishing a Peter Colwell in a land-related discussion on an
> >> economics email list some time back.
> >
> >What's ISTR?
>
> "I seem to recall"
>
> >And what's Peter Colwell's general stance?
>
> I think the main thing I was correcting him on was gross
> underestimation of aggregate land rent, but I could be wrong. I have
> no record of the exchange, just a vague recollection.

This doesn't match the topic you refer to, but the names are right:
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/land_discussion3.html

>
> -- Roy L

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