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Andrew Mazzone. Businessman and Exponent of the Economic Theory of Henry George
Fundamental Economics: First Principles Henry George
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Wednesday, January 14th
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Thursday, January 15th
•6 pm - Mr. Andrew Mazzone
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Who Was Henry George?
by Agnes George de Mille
A hundred years ago a young unknown printer in San Francisco wrote a book he called Progress and Poverty. He wrote after his daily working hours, in the only leisure open to him for writing. He had no real training in political economy. Indeed he had stopped schooling in the seventh grade in his native Philadelphia, and shipped before the mast as a cabin boy, making a complete voyage around the world. Three years later, he was halfway through a second voyage as able seaman when he left the ship in San Francisco and went to work as a journeyman printer. After that he took whatever honest job came to hand. All he knew of economics were the basic rules of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and other economists, and the new philosophies of Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill, much of which he gleaned from reading in public libraries and from his own painstakingly amassed library. Marx was yet to be translated into English

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[Scottonthespot305]

Good grief, I'm glad I know Andrew personally and from the school. Because listening to this "interview" would teach me almost nothing at all except this clown Channer's views. Is he interviewing himself? I hope Andrew gets his own show.

[rockyselvatico78]

I don't know how Mazzone put up with this guy. Channer is a certified idiot. This seemed more like the cross-examination of a hostile witness than an interview. He just doesn't get it, he'll never get it -- it's like trying to describe the earth as being round to someone in the stone age -- Speaking of stones, a pet rock has more intellectual depth than Mr. Channer.

[SingleTax]

Even though I love Henry George, I couldn't watch the whole interview, because Harold Channer was simply too annoying.

[magrathean0]

The interviewer asks again and again "what is the salient difference between land and capital?" and the answer he wanted is simple, capital can be replaced by the worker, the land cannot; therefore, the bargaining position for capital vs labour is completely different than labour vs land. Andrew did a good job up against one of the most obtuse and irrelevant interviewers i have ever seen.

[matchbox555]

i cant finish what andrew started because i will never know what he was going to say. some asshole called harold kept interupting him.

[paulagloria]

well why don't you finish what Andrew started? I am all ears

[paulagloria]

"A full employment economy must reduce the power of corporations."

this is fascinating...Did Henry George know about the power of corporations when he wrote his book (the one that Andrew Mazzone wants to rewrite)?

[paulagloria]

I gave you information about the argument that didn't meet my needs for clarity. Could I ask you to address what exactly you did not understand and wish Andrew Mazzone had elaborated on but couldn't because Harold interrupted

[matchbox555]

no he needs to shut the fuck up and let his guests present an argument/analogy/example before fucking interupting it. no wonder no one watches his show anymore, he is going senile.

[nthperson]

George opposed monopolies, and corporate ownership is inherently monopolistic. A full employment economy must reduce the power of corporations.

George advanced a "labor and capital goods theory of property," observing

that exchange value is determined by market forces not the amount of labor involved.

These are issues the exchange could have brought out but did not.