(f) If you were the owner of this plot, to what extent, if to any,
would your future use of this land be affected by the adoption of the
single tax program?

2. Select for study a plot of ground in your locality which has been
idle for a number of years.

(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?


II

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.)