Re: von Mises Institute on Henry George

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:18:02 GMT

"Socialism is a Mental Disease" <root@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2004 06:27:13 -0700, ruetheday@outgun.com (Rue The Day)
> wrote:
> >
> >http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1592&id=71
> >
> >They praise him endlessly for his writings on free trade and
> >protectionism, but then end the paper with a couple of sentences about
> >how he was wrong on the land issue "because Rothbard said so".
> >Classic.
> >
>
> It's called references.

Right. However...

> Sometimes people used them:
>
> http://www.mises.org/rothbard/georgism.pdf

...some references are fraught with error.

Here's another reference:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tma68/geo-faq.htm#rothbard

Excerpt:
"6. Didn't Austrian economist Murray Rothbard refute the LVT?
"No, but not for lack of trying. Rothbard's argument against the LVT is
fatally flawed for at least two reasons -- one moral, the other economic.
>From a moral perspective, it completely ignores the unjust interference that
the overextension of law-made property imposes on man-made property. From an
economic perspective, it is based on a false understanding of what
conditions are necessary for land to have rental value."

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