=================== HES POSTING ====================== Regarding Roy Davidson's comments about Henry George's reception in Russia: For a fascinating account of the attempts to suppress the influence of Henry George in the US in the 1880s and 1890s, and the convenience of the neo-classical J B Clarkian revolution that fused land with capital to tell the marginal productivity of distribution story and give it an ethical support, see Mason Gaffney, "The Corruption of Economics", London, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1994 - reviewed last year in the JEL by Peter Newman and in the EJ by Mark Blaug. A team of British and American Georgists, including Gaffney, Fred Harrison, Ted Gwartney and Nic Tideman have been working on the Russians for the last 5 years to get them to privatise everything EXCEPT land, and base taxation on the rental value of land a la Ricardian (classical, non-neo-classical) theory of rent and distribution. Roger Sandilands Economics University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]