Rescuing Henry George
探讨了哈罗德·霍特林受亨利·乔治思想及“地主游戏”(即后来的大富翁游戏)的影响,揭示政治信念如何塑造其经济学研究,并说明游戏规则帮助他思考经济机制。
Harold Hotelling’s work, from natural resources economics to optimal taxation, and from spatial to welfare economics, was deeply influenced by his Georgist affiliation and by a Georgist game that we now call Monopoly, which at the time was known as the Landlord’s Game. We explore this influence, its history, and the role it played in Hotelling’s work and ideas. We show that political beliefs deeply shaped Hotelling’s approach to economics and that the rules of the Landlord’s Game helped him think about economic mechanisms.