The American Prospect, November 16, 2001
THE ALASKA Permanent Fund hasn’t attracted much attention in the Lower 48—but it should. For citizens of all states are about to inherit another gift of nature worth trillions of dollars. And hardly anyone is talking about it.
The New Republic, June 14, 1975
NOT LONG AGO a West Coast bank president mentioned to me that a piece of land he had purchased along- side a new state highway had doubled in value in a few years. His windfall is an example of what John Stuart Mill called the “unearned increment.”
The New Republic, April 13, 1974
LIKE SOME 25 MILLION Americans, I pay monthly tribute to an absentee landlord for the privilege of having a roof over my head. A good-sized portion of that is profit for banks, insurance companies, real estate agents and present and past landlords. Why?
Business and Society Review, Winter 1974
WEALTHY PERSONS in America enjoy security, privilege, power, and freedom from demeaning chores. Some of these benefits derive from wealth itself, others from its unequal distribution. It is the latter that are properly the concern of the non-wealthy.
The New Republic, September 8, 1973
BOOKS BY POLITICIANS tend to be boring, staff-produced efforts designed to display The Boss as a thoughtful public servant. What sets Fred Harris’ apart is his unique angle of vision. He is the only major politician who says publicly and indeed vociferously that American capitalism is a shuck.
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