Anyone who says "X is what we need to do" over and over again will be part of a weird cult eventually and that's not a bad thing regardless of whether X is desirable.
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Replying to @arindube @mattyglesias
Also, Ladejinsky didn't focus on common ownership of land, or on land value taxation. He focused on expropriating land from landlords and giving it to tenant farmers. Which turned out to be an incredibly successful policy.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @mattyglesias
Yes. Using land reform to disrupt the grip of the landed gentry was likely a valuable move helping the development process writ large in East Asia. Much more than just talking about how taxing land.
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Replying to @arindube @mattyglesias
Do you think redistributing houses would have a similar effect today? I feel like it might. Taking care of a house is similar in some ways to taking care of a small farm.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @mattyglesias
I don't. It doesn't seem to involve the same types of distributional inefficiencies as the political economic grip of the landed gentry entailed historically. But I could be wrong.
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Replying to @arindube @mattyglesias
I'd be interested to hear more of the case against doing this, because it sure does seem like our rent crisis is acute and is inflaming class tensions.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @mattyglesias
Well, I support (1) vastly increased public expenditures towards housing and (2) smart use of regs to incentivize construction of affordable housing in urban core. I think we need to tilt effective property rights over land towards working class folk.
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Replying to @arindube @mattyglesias
The historical failure of collective farming, and the wild success of small-plot independent farming after land reform, along with America's own experience with social housing, make me think (by analogy) that housing redistribution would be better than social housing.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @mattyglesias
Collective farming was a disaster. Public housing is alive and well in many countries (Sweden). However, I didn't necessarily mean publicly owned housing. I said public expenditures toward housing (i.e, construction of affordable units, subsidies, etc.)
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But this is also why I think your analogy between housing ownership and land tenure is a real stretch. Totally different animals!
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The similarities are: A) wealth you can sell, whose value you can sort of estimate yourself B) something that takes labor to upkeep
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c) Increases political support for property rights
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