Jul. 23rd, 2021

The copy of Henry George’s Protection or Free Trade I ordered from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation last month arrived the other day, and I’ve started reading it. This isn’t just any copy of a book I first read as a teenager, more than forty years ago, but the latest in a series of annotated, scholarly editions of the great thinker’s books. I’ve read the introduction by William Peirce, a retired professor of economics and a Georgist activist, and gone on to begin rereading the book itself.

Professor Peirce makes the point that George was a public choice economist avant la lettre, as Adam Smith also was to some degree. George understood that it is insufficient to look at the abstract merits and faults of a policy conducted ably and without corruption; one should also consider the incentives of politicians, lobbyists, and civil servants to modify and pervert it.
This week, one Printer’s Rush showed up on my Expedited docket, because a form I had filled out correctly somehow did not get uploaded correctly, so I had to redo it, with assistance from an ITRP (information technology resource person, pronounced eye-turp). That having been taken care of I have the same two cases on my Amended docket that I had a week ago.

I have been working on my oldest Regular New case, and have made progress without finishing it. Also, I took a look at another application on my Regular New docket, and decided that it wasn’t in my area; it used to be that I would put in a Transfer Inquiry when a situation like that arose, but for the past year or so, we’ve had something called a C* Challenge instead, and I had never done one. With helpful instructions from a fellow examiner, I did my first C* Challenge, and the application showed up as paused, and then vanished off my docket altogether. So that’s one small accomplishment, anyhow.

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