Re: Henry George: Plagiarist

With characteristic dishonesty, Lyin' Ryan unconsciously admits that
he lied when he accused Henry George of plagiarism -- which is
_unacknowledged_ quotation of others' work. Indeed, there is as much
a case to be made that Adam Smith plagiarized Turgot and the
physiocrats as that Henry George did.

On 8 Sep 2006 20:01:39 -0700, w_b_ryan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

"When Henry George wrote his first book, he
did not know the French Physiocrats of the
second half of the 18th century even by name.
Later he read only the short expositions of their
doctrine that are to be found in English books.
He did not know French, and translations as
well as exhaustive accounts of those exponents
of the impot unique (the 'Single Tax' men of
their day) were wanting in English. From what
he had heard about them, George supposed that
in their "single tax" the Physiocrats meant equal
rights to land through land value taxation. At
any rate, the Physiocrats did call for the
abolition of all taxes, full Free Trade, and one
single tax on land; and they used arguments
based upon natural law which were nearly the
same as those of George; and George mentioned
them with enthusiasm in Progress and Poverty
(Book VIII, Chap. 4), Protection or Free Trade
(Chaps. 2 and 26) and The Science of Political
Economy (Book II, Chap. 5, and Book III,
Chap. 6). He even calls his own adherents "neo-
physiocrats," and dedicated his Protection or
Free Trade to Quesnay and his friends in very
warm words."
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/fraenckel-axel_physiocrats-and-henry-george.html

-- Roy L
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