The Red Queen’s Race

I didn’t get any amendments this week, so I’m still at zero amendments.

I did finish an Office Action on a Regular New case, although not the oldest on my docket. I have now been working on my oldest Regular New.

Also, I confirmed that no response had been filed in either of two cases on which I had done first action rejections a little more than six months ago, so I was able to do abandonments on both of them.

Georgist Conference in O’Falllon, Part Thirty-Nine

To continue with the afternoon of July 29, 2017, Brendan Hennigan, Ted Gwartney, Gib Halverson, and Erich Jacoby-Hawkins spoke at the book launch of The Annotated Works of Henry George, Volume Two: Progress and Poverty.. There was a video of Frank Peddle talking about economic rent, which these days is called “profit” or “the reward of entrepreneurship.” (If I recall correctly, Professor Peddle had said this at the Canadian book launch.) The idea that not all income is the same is beginning to bubble up, he said. Land or nature is not the same as what human effort produces. Henry George was for justice and equality.

The Canadian housing crisis [they had it, too] has led to young people in distress, the great Canadian precariate.

Have Georgist organizations done a good job of linking theory to modern circumstances? Ted Gwartney addressed the question, and gave a quote from Progress and Poverty that seemed to fit modern circumstances. So, yes.

Professor Bill Peirce talked about gauging success. The true measure of success will take time. It depends on whether we can raise up a generation of scholars who take Georgist ideas seriously.

Jane Jacobs missed the point, alas. She thought that Henry George was just an agricultural economist.

To be continued.