A letter in today’s Financial Times written by Professor Roger Sandilands continues the There has been a flurry of correspondence published over the past few days in FT letters.

The number of groups and individuals working for land value taxation continues to grow. There is a particularly clear explanation of the case for land value tax on the website of the Coalition for Economic Justice, to which we are affiliated, here. We also suggest taking a regular browse on all the other sites we are linked to.

Prompted by the economic crisis and the sixtieth anniversary of the UN declaration, human rights have been the subject of several pieces arguing that states should have a stronger role to ensure that people’s rights are protected. But human rights are not guaranteed by defining them as such, rather they arise by defining the corresponding duties which confer those rights. Once the duties of...

Advocates of our policy often find themselves in conflict with both “left” and “right”. The discussion below, which arose out of an article on Libertarianism, is an example of the latter. I wrote… There is just one flaw in the libertarian argument but it is fatal. It fails on the question of land rights. Nozick, one of the prophets of modern libertarianism, skirts over...

I came across this in a Guardian discussion group just now, written by someone with the pseudonym MrDismal. Apart from the slight inaccuracy in the first sentence, it puts the issue beautifully, taking a bigger view…

The news gets stranger. The UK pound continues to drop, now on the news that the government will breach its self-imposed borrowing limits, which have proved to be worthless when they might have been most needed. Clearly, Gordon Brown’s economic policies were not designed to withstand stormy conditions. An expected shortage of tax revenues, combined with a growing bill for unemployment benefit,...

The mischief being perpetrated by the World Bank is much underestimated. Throughout the underdeveloped world, it promotes the desirability of introducing a system of land titles. This is perfectly reasonable when it argues that titles protect the poor against the weak and powerful and so improve their security of tenure, making them more likely to invest. But the bank is hopelessly wrong to advocate...