Mason Gaffney

Mason Gaffney (born October 18, 1923) is an American economist and a major critic of Neoclassical economics from a Georgist point of view.[1] He earned his B.A. in 1948 from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.[2] Gaffney first read Henry George's masterwork Progress and Poverty as a high school junior. After serving in the southwest Pacific during World War II, this interest led him in 1955 to get a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] There he addressed his teachers' skepticism about Georgism with a dissertation entitled "Land Speculation as an Obstacle to Ideal Allocation of Land." Gaffney has been Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside since 1976.

Career

Gaffney has been a Professor of Economics at several universities; a journalist with TIME, Inc.; a researcher with Resources for the Future; the head of the British Columbia Institute for Economic Policy Analysis,[4] which he founded; an economic consultant to several businesses and government agencies; and a frequent speaker on economic topics, domestic and foreign, and in political campaigns. He has been a Director of R.S.F. since 1988.

Publications

Gaffney has published many books and articles on public finance, land use, economics, taxation, and public policy. These include:

References

  1. ↑ "Neo-classical Economics as a Strategem against Henry George" (PDF).
  2. ↑ UC Riverside, Department of Economics
  3. ↑ UC Riverside, Academic Biographies
  4. ↑ M. Mason Gaffney, 1976. Interviewed by Derek Reimer. Aural History Programme, Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria, B.C. V8V IX4

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