Ricardo, George, Clark, Ramsey, Mirrlees, Vickrey, Wicksell, Musgrave, Buchanan, Tiebout, and Stiglitz, by Colin Read, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016. Review by Bill Batt
Professor Read gives us an eminently readable book about the leading economists responsible for developing the sub-discipline of public finance. It is part of the author’s “Great Minds Series.” Continue reading
Comments by Bill Batt on Rent Unmasked: Essays in Honour of Mason Gaffney, Edited by Fred Harrison, Shepheard-Walwyn, 2016
Rent Unmasked, the newly published Mason Gaffney Festschrift volume, includes the thinking of many Georgist experts, showing the breadth that Gaffney’s work inspired. Continue reading
by Bill Batt
An opportunity arose this past June to join an educational visit to Cuba under the sponsorship of The Nation magazine. For eight days some 24 subscribers and staff of this weekly had an extraordinary entrée to political insiders, academics and journalists. Cuba is experiencing a socio-political transformation, and there is good reason to believe that the veneration of José Martí can be linked with interest in Henry George. Continue reading
Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future. New York: Norton Press, 2012. Review by Bill Batt
Joseph Stiglitz’s latest book takes up the theme that the health of a democracy depends upon the strength of a middle class. Continue reading
by Bill Batt
Arguments have been growing to the effect that many copyrights and patents, viewed today as an intellectual property right, are often questionable public policy. Continue reading