Mason Gaffney
[2005]
Mason Gaffney first read Henry George when a high school junior.
After he served in the S.W. Pacific during W.W. II, this interest led
him back to get a Ph.D. in Economics at Berkeley, where he tried to
meet his teachers' skepticism and apathy with a dissertation, "Land
Speculation as an Obstacle to Ideal Allocation of Land." Since
then he has published many books and articles on land use, economics,
taxation, and public policy. He has been a Professor of Economics at
several Universities; a journalist with TIME, Inc.; a researcher with
Resources for the Future, Inc.; the head of the British Columbia
Institute for Economic Policy Analysis, which he founded; an economic
consultant to several businesses and government agencies; and a
frequent speaker on economic topics, domestic and foreign, and in
political campaigns. He is married to Letitia Atwood, and the father
of six. He has been Professor of Economics at U.C. Riverside since
1976; and a Director of R.S.F. since 1988.
His books and monographs include Concepts of Financial Maturity of
Timber; LAND: A Special Issue (of House and Home Magazine); Extractive
Resources and Taxation; Oil and Gas Leasing Policy for Alaska, 1977;
and The Corruption of Economics.
His better-known articles include "Urban Expansion: Will it Ever
Stop?"; "Diseconomies Inherent in Western Water Law"; "Land
and Rent in Welfare Economics"; "Economic Aspects of Water
Resource Policy"; "A Critique of Federal Water Policy";
"The Taxable Surplus in Water Resources"; "Water
Marketing: California's New Frontier"; "Land Rent, Taxation,
and Public Policy"; "Containment Policies for Urban Sprawl";
"Property Taxes and the Frequency of Urban Renewal"; "The
Property Tax is a Progressive Tax"; "Adequacy of Land as a
Tax Base"; "Soil Depletion and Land Rent"; "Social
and Economic Impacts of Foreign Investment in U.S. Land"; "Land
Reform through Tax Reform"; "Land as a Distinctive Factor of
Production"; "Rising Concentration and Falling Property Tax
Rates"; "How to Revive a Dying City"; "Economic
Analysis and Air Conservation"; "The Partiality of Indexing
Capital Gains"; "Privatizing Land without Giveaway"; "The
Income-stimulating Incentives of the Property Tax"; "Taxation
of Mobile Capital in a Global Free Market -- Opportunities and Threats
for Low Tax Countries"; "International Tax Competition:
Harmful or Beneficial?"; "Toward Full Employment with
Limited Land and Capital"; "Alfred Russel Wallace's Campaign
to Nationalize Land"; and "Henry George, Dr. Edward McGlynn,
and Pope Leo XIII."
Dr. Gaffney lives in Riverside, CA.
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