(a) Why has this ground been idle so long?
(b) Do you believe that this land is being held for speculative purposes?
(c) If so, suppose that a very heavy tax stimulated the owner to put the land to some use. Do you know of a productive use to which it could be put?
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3. The life of Henry George. (Consult an encyclopedia.)
4. The economic background of Henry George's doctrine. (Young, The Single Tax Movement in the United States, chapter ii.)
5. Is land-ownership a monopoly? (Seligman, Principles of Economics, page 391.)
6. Tactics of the single tax movement. (Young, The Single Tax Movement in the United States, chapter xii.)
7. Relation of the single tax to socialism. (Young, The Single Tax Movement in the United States, pages 307-312.)