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[v] Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, (New York: The Macmillan Company, orig. 1890; 8th Ed., 1920; 7th Printing, 1959, 1948 (sic)), p.798. More emphatic is Marshall's letter to The Times, (London, The London Times, Nov. 16, 1909).

[vi] (1920), p.xvii

[vii] (1920), pp.169, 422, 433, 441-44, 450, 796-98, 801-04, et passim. There is an insightful discussion in Robert F. HÃ �bert, "Marshall: A Professional Economist Guards the Purity of His Discipline" in Robert Andelson (ed.), Critics of Henry George (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1979), pp.56-71. See also various excellent writings on Marshall by J.K. Whitaker.

[viii] Marshall (1920), p.797

[ix] Data from Annual Reports, California State Board of Equalization

[x] Charles McLure, Jr., "The Taxation of Natural Resources and the Future of the Russian Federation," a paper given at the annual meeting of the Committee on Taxation, Resources, and Economic Development (TRED), to be published in Christine Wallich (ed.), Whither Russia: Fiscal Decentralization in the Russian Federation (Washington, The World Bank, 1992), p.1

[xi] California Board of Equalization, loc cit.

[xii] Ibid.

[xiii] Louis Hacker, Triumph of American Capitalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1947). p. 187; Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1935), pp. 156-58, 169; James Madison, The Federalist #10; A. Hamilton, The Federalist #12; John Fiske, The Critical Period of American History (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1888), p. 70

[xiv] Either ironically or significantly, it was Hamilton who instigated the first use of a Federal property tax, in 1798, when he virtually ran Adams' cabinet and wanted money to prepare for a war he desired with France. Later, the second use came under President Madison, to fight Britain.

[xv] Cit. Roy Douglas, Land, People, and Politics. (London: Allison and Busby, 1976), p.150

[xvi] Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: and How I Got Licked. (Pasadena: Published by the author, 1934; Rpt. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1994)

[xvii] James Echols, "Jackson Ralston and the California Single Tax Campaign, 1933-38." (M.A. Thesis, Department of History, Fresno State College, 1967), p.57. Home Rule was in the tradition of Joseph Fels, whose generous financial backing helped him shape single tax politics from 1900-16, and lead the movement down the road proverbially paved with good intentions.

See also Jackson H. Ralston, "Adventures in the Life of a Washington Lawyer" (MS in the Ralston Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, nd)

[xviii] Zobel v. Williams, (102 US 2309, 1982)

[xix] Edward Polak, "Reduction of Tax on Buildings in the City of New York," AAAPSS 58 (1915), pp. 183-88. On the New York City experience see Mason Gaffney, "The Regeneration of New York City after 1920," (ms available from author, 2001).

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Mason Gaffney first read Henry George when a high school junior , and became notorious among his classmates for preaching LVT to them . H e served in the S.W. Pacific during W.W. II, where he observed the results of land monopoly in The (more...)