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A Stable Equilibrium since 1894 Restoring a timeless idea... Issue 1245 Winter 2018/19 Issue 1245 Winter A Stable Equilibrium No 1229 Winter 2010/11 1 “ it is not government that makes society; it is society that makes government... WWW.HENRYGEORGEFOUNDATION.ORG message from the honorary president No 1245 Winter 2018/19 PO Box 6408, London, W1A 3GY +44 (0) 800 048 8537 Those interested in history, geography, anthropology, the arts and other [email protected] humanities are well aware of how the name, form and culture of every society is a product of both natural and man-made forces. The same Editor is true of everything that people produce, and down the ages science Joseph Milne has discovered new ways in which the forces of nature may be used to increase our ability to produce the things that people need. 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This at least, is the broad shape of a new course on The Science of Political Economy that is currently under preparation and any comments and/or suggestions would welcome. The Henry George Foundation is an independent economic and social justice think tank and public education group The Foundation deals in cutting-edge ideas, exploring and David Triggs promotingwith offices principles in London for and a just members and prosperous throughout society the UK. and a healthy environment. Honorary President Henry George Foundation The Henry George Foundation of Great Britain is a www.landandliberty.net @landandliberty us on Twitter follow company limited by guarantee, registered in England, no. 00956714, and a charity registered in England under the henrygeorgefoundation@ Charities Act 1960, no. 259194. googlemail.com www.HenryGeorgeFoundation.org 3 CONTENTS issue 1245 WINTER 2018/19 10 Regulars Cover Story Features 17 6 9 HGF News The Introduction of Henry George and The Question The latest news and events from the Land Value Taxation of Universal Basic Income Henry George Foundation in London Brian Chance tackles the core practical issue of exactly how to introduce 16 LVT in the current political climate Simonis making McKenna the rounds explores across the sopressing many Reviews & Books Worth questioncontemporary of Universal political Basic communities, Income that Reading and presents his argument for exactly The Failure of Land Reform in where some Georgists may have gotten Twentieth-Century England: The this particular issue wrong Triumph of Private Property by Michael Tichelar lays out the 18 historical context as to why land value Closing Thoughts tax never ended up governing the Conclusively our Closing Thoughts market in land, and is reviewed by section has Tommas Graves asking for . Books Worth Reading one simple change whilst wondering then casts some light upon the issue of Cover Photograph why we don’t go for it? Simonmedieval McKenna economics by means of Mary OlivePrints Aquinas and the Market: Towards a Humane Economy Article image rights: Hirschfield’s book pixabay.com 4 No 12291245 Winter 2010/112018/19 letter from the editor In Protection or Free Trade Henry George draws the following dis- That is to say, as, in the process of integration, the individual be- tinction between the realm of government and the realm of the comes more and more dependent upon and subordinate to the all, individual: it becomes necessary for government, which is properly that social organ by which alone the whole body of individuals can act, to take Man is primarily an individual—a separate entity, differing from his upon itself, in the interest of all, certain functions which cannot fellows in desires and powers, and requiring for the exercise of those safely be left to individuals. powers and the gratification of those desires individual play and freedom. But he is also a social being, having desires that harmonize Perhaps the most important point George is making here is that with those of his fellows, and powers that can be brought out only in functions that properly belong to the State to perform assure in- concerted action. There is thus a domain of individual action and a dividual freedom. Private monopolies diminish individual free- domain of social action—some things which can best be done when dom. Individualists who argue in the name of liberty against all each acts for himself, and some things which can best be done when state intervention, as the Liberty and Property Defence League society acts for all its members. did against George in 1882, ultimately defeat their own purpose. True liberty of the individual cannot be attained through the loss There was great confusion about this natural distinction in of liberty of another individual. And so George draws the conclu- George’s time. ‘Individualists’ opposed him, calling him a ‘socialist’, sion: while socialists opposed him, calling him an individualist. These opposing camps held that either all matters of society should be Thus out of the principle that it is the proper end and purpose of left to the free individual, while the other held that every aspect of government to secure the natural rights and equal liberty of the society should be under the control of government. George traces individual, grows the principle that it is the business of govern- the reason for this confusion to the way civilization develops: ment to do for the mass of individuals those things which cannot be done, or cannot be so well done, by individual action. The natural tendency of advancing civilization is to make social con- ditions relatively more important, and more and more to enlarge the In Protection or Free Trade George is equally clear on what is not domain of social action. This has not been sufficiently regarded, and the business of government: at the present time, evil unquestionably results from leaving to indi- vidual action functions that by reason of the growth of society and All schemes for securing equality in the conditions of men by plac- the development of the arts have passed into the domain of social ing the distribution of wealth in the hands of government have action; just as, on the other hand, evil unquestionably results from the fatal defect of beginning at the wrong end.
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