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Owning the Earth

the Transforming History of Land Ownership
Oct 03, 2014StarGladiator rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A thoughtful and engaging read, but be sure to read this concurrently with Henry George's book, Progress and Poverty, to fully grasp the overall macro picture. Both believe that private land ownership is the ultimate, although George's take was by far the most intelligent and farsighted, whereas Linklater still doesn't quite grasph monopoly capitalism. The peruse Prof. Michael Perelman's most brilliant book, The Invention of Capitalism, to fully understand the contradiction posed by capitalism and this author's [Linklater's] book. [Finally read Kevin Cahill's book, Who Owns The World, a bit of a stretch, but a further eye-opener!] With a select group in America, China and the Soviet Union [I am too ignorant to comment on modern-day Russia] owning the majority of everything, most importantly, the land, one sees where this goes, and it isn't any form of economic democracy Linklater appears to be suggesting! FYI: What made possible the Asian tiger economies was the flow of both jobs and capital to them, and when those capital flows returned to the USA we observed that dot.com bubble.