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Allyn Young on Henry George and the Single Tax
Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-09 , DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2021.1920715
Ramesh Chandra 1
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ABSTRACT

Henry George, though not the originator of the idea of the single tax, succeeded in popularising it to a wide audience. His scientific rigour in Progress and Poverty was questioned by both Alfred Marshall and Allyn Young. With progress neither poverty nor the decline in real wages was inevitable. Young agreed with Marshall that although the overall supply of land was fixed, it was relatively elastic for any particular use even within agriculture. Once it is recognised that land has competing uses, the opportunity cost principle becomes operative. Young largely discounted the notion of ‘unearned increment’ on several grounds including the fact that buying and holding land being like any other business, its increments were as much earned as any other, and therefore confiscatory taxation was largely unjustified.



中文翻译:

艾琳·杨谈亨利·乔治和单一税

摘要

亨利·乔治虽然不是单一税概念的创始人,但成功地将其推广到广大受众。他在《进步与贫困》中的科学严谨性受到了 Alfred Marshall 和 Allyn Young 的质疑。随着进步,贫困和实际工资的下降都不是不可避免的。杨同意马歇尔的观点,尽管土地的总体供应是固定的,但对于任何特定用途,即使在农业领域,它都是相对有弹性的。一旦认识到土地具有相互竞争的用途,机会成本原则就会起作用。杨在很大程度上否定了“不劳而获的增量”的概念,其中包括以下事实:购买和持有土地就像任何其他业务一样,其增量与其他任何业务一样多,因此没收税收在很大程度上是不合理的。

更新日期:2021-06-09
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