tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post7862986258723544569..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (346)Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-10112044644506282922014-11-10T15:47:18.060+00:002014-11-10T15:47:18.060+00:00Whenever a Royal Libertarian brings up "The T...Whenever a Royal Libertarian brings up "The Tragedy of the Commons" it's worth mentioning that the author, Garrett Hardin, was talking about an unmanaged commons, ie a free-for-all, and that while not a Georgist himself because of his position on overpopulation, he did say, <br /><br />"I have known ... of Henry George's work for a long time and always thought it a shame that he could not have been born two centuries earlier and laid out the ground rules for the development of the New World."<br /><br />So he wasn't against commons. He just thought that they needed regulation.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296053477905542366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-69813168823093461632014-11-10T07:13:17.164+00:002014-11-10T07:13:17.164+00:00BJ, yes, the how, why and who of value creation is...BJ, yes, the how, why and who of value creation is irrelevant. <br /><br />The other point is that land "ownership" is only made possible by society in general being peaceful and stable and organised*. So society in general is entitled to charge for it.<br /><br />* Try buying land in Somalia or Afghanistan, for example.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-54832574501896702992014-11-09T18:33:44.176+00:002014-11-09T18:33:44.176+00:00The site premium is based solely on how much one p...The site premium is based solely on how much one person is prepared to pay for exclusive rights of said site.<br /><br />All other considerations are neither here nor there.<br /><br />Because unlike capital, land is not created by human effort.<br /><br />So, those paying for exclusive rights should pay it to those being excluded.<br /><br />What actually shifts demand from one location to another is therefore utterly irrelevant.<br /><br />People seem to find the economic/moral difference between demand shifting from value created very difficult to conceptualise.benjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544297406005346095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-77882310224576714682014-11-09T12:39:28.344+00:002014-11-09T12:39:28.344+00:00L, thanks.
AKH, B, yes.
Planning rules are lik...L, thanks. <br /><br />AKH, B, yes. <br /><br />Planning rules are like canals or dams which divert water (land value) away from some land and towards other land. But it is heartily irrelevant whether the size of a town is limited by a natural feature (a cliff or marshland) or an arbitrary line (The Hallowed Green Belt). The effect is exactly the same.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-60112958352115636522014-11-09T11:33:11.122+00:002014-11-09T11:33:11.122+00:00"What about houses which are worth more preci..."What about houses which are worth more precisely because of scarcity value, because people are prevented from building in the vicinity, i.e. in the Hallowed Green Belt?<br /><br />Who creates that value?"<br /><br />What about all the value "destroyed" by planning restrictions in the HGB? All that cheap-as-chips farmland which should be worth hundreds of times more as building land.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-48150408168522178502014-11-09T11:08:02.287+00:002014-11-09T11:08:02.287+00:00"Who creates that value?"
In the case o..."Who creates that value?"<br /><br />In the case of Bakewell in Derbyshire a big chunk of it must be the Peak District National Park in which Bakewell sits.<br /><br />We thought of moving there once, but no chance.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-56971441997594108272014-11-09T10:50:46.617+00:002014-11-09T10:50:46.617+00:00Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting a resp...Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting a response. I have responded and added a link to your post. It hasn't appeared yet, for some reason...Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586735342675041312noreply@blogger.com