Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2360

Exchange between Heath and Colin Clark, M.A., Director, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

 

 

 

January 16, 1954

 

Dear Mr. Clark:

 

     Noting your somewhat active interest in the discussion of sources of public revenue with particular reference to land-value taxation, we have thought it might interest you to peruse a booklet of ours highly critical of the sophistical arguments set out in Progress & Poverty for the destruction of private property in land.

 

     We take pleasure therefore in sending you herewith a copy of “Progress & Poverty Reviewed and Its Fallacies Exposed,” including supplementary material afforded by the controversy, especially in the pages of Land and Liberty, that has ensued.

 

We trust you will discover in this our earnest desire to expose the intellectual foundations upon which so many long-time misconceptions of property in land are reposed, and to throw some light on the present and potential functions of that institution in the development of a free society.

 

We send this without obligation but trusting it may please you to favor us with your acknowledgement and possible comments.

 

Very sincerely yours,

 

Spencer Heath

 

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Encl.— PPR & suppl. Disc.

 

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9^th February, 1954

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

 

     Thank you for the letter and the booklet you sent me. I continue to regard land as a suitable object of taxation.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

/s/ Colin Clark