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ndrosenAfter lunch, the first afternoon session on Saturday, July 29 was Bill Batt’s report on nine Georgist books published overseas (the program said eight, but he added a ninth). Ted Gwartney began by introducing Dr. William Batt, to be formal about his name. He went to CUNY New Hampton, and from 1982 until 1992, he worked for a committee of the New York Legislature. He has devoted the past twenty-five years to Georgist activism.
Bill Batt said that more Georgist books are being published elsewhere than in the United States. To start with, he mentioned The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn, by Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg (a Brit and a Swede). This is about how the Nobel Prize in Economics was created, a disgusting story. If economics was not already corrupted, this corrupted it. A cabal of mostly European economists was behind it.
The second book was The Fair Tax: Supported by History, Agreed by Economists, Feared by the One Percent, edited by Emer O Siochru (a woman; there should be accent marks over the O and the u). This is a few years old, and includes a land value map of Ireland, 150 pages long.
To be continued.
Bill Batt said that more Georgist books are being published elsewhere than in the United States. To start with, he mentioned The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn, by Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg (a Brit and a Swede). This is about how the Nobel Prize in Economics was created, a disgusting story. If economics was not already corrupted, this corrupted it. A cabal of mostly European economists was behind it.
The second book was The Fair Tax: Supported by History, Agreed by Economists, Feared by the One Percent, edited by Emer O Siochru (a woman; there should be accent marks over the O and the u). This is a few years old, and includes a land value map of Ireland, 150 pages long.
To be continued.
