Harper's Magazine, Volume 236Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1968 - American literature |
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... land values up at a dizzying rate . Despite these recent spurs to the growth in value of land , however , that growth in itself is nothing new . Indeed , in an important economic sense , the history of America can be said to be the ...
... land values up at a dizzying rate . Despite these recent spurs to the growth in value of land , however , that growth in itself is nothing new . Indeed , in an important economic sense , the history of America can be said to be the ...
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... land more valuable . Thus the dis- tinction between a successful and an unsuccessful land speculator often has more to do with the ability to interpret and predict the movement of population than with sagacity about how to im- prove the ...
... land more valuable . Thus the dis- tinction between a successful and an unsuccessful land speculator often has more to do with the ability to interpret and predict the movement of population than with sagacity about how to im- prove the ...
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... land taxes . His " single tax " was intended to force land into its highest and best use , offsetting the worst ef- fects of land speculation and obviating high profit from slums . Such an oversimplification of a very complex tax ...
... land taxes . His " single tax " was intended to force land into its highest and best use , offsetting the worst ef- fects of land speculation and obviating high profit from slums . Such an oversimplification of a very complex tax ...
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