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About 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.
- He earned his B.A.
- in 1948 from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
- 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 1956 to get a Ph.D.
- in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 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.
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