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The Jerome Levy Economic Institute Conference:
Author(s) -
Gwartney J. Ted,
Tideman Nicolaus
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1996.tb02321.x
Subject(s) - revenue , officer , land value , economic thought , economics , value (mathematics) , poverty , management , political science , economic history , law and economics , sociology , accounting , law , classical economics , agricultural economics , economic growth , mathematics , statistics
A bstract . The Jerome Levy Economic Institute at Bard College presented a program arranged by Professor Kris Feder on “Land Wealth and Poverty,” on November 2‐4,1995, Two of the talks presented are here reproduced with more to follow in subsequent issues of this Journal. J. Ted Gwartney, former senior appraisal officer of the Bank of America presented the view that a 4% tax on the value of land, as broadly defined, could provide revenue adequate for the removal of all other taxes. Professor Nicolaus Tideman argued the case of morality of taxation at the local level.