***>you seem instead to have turned it into an attack on Zarlenga for not singing hymns of praise to your personal super-hero. <***
Not "hymns of praise" of my "personal super-hero." The book pretends to be a work of scholarship. It isn't for reasons I have stated. Wasn't it you who said he extensively discusses Pound and Mullins? It isn't possible to discuss Pound and Mullins without bringing Douglas into the discussion unless you are trying to hide something. I have a theory as to why they are hiding it. It goes back many years to when the Georgists were in conflict with social credit. Now, Zarlenga is trying to demonstrate that Henry George was a greenbacker. He wasn't. His movement in the 19th century was in conflict with the greenbackers. So there is some rewriting of history going on here.
***>The book does not mention Social Credit or Douglas, and the author (with whom I have corresponded extensively) does not seem to be aware of the connection between the research he has assembled here and the ideas of Douglas. <***
I think he has to be aware and is lying when he says he isn't aware.
***>All I know is that Alexander Del Mar features prominently as a source in The Lost Science, and that his work was done and published mainly before Douglas started to write. <***
Yes, Del Mar was prominent in the greenbacker movement and spent a lot of time in England. Del Mar's work was mostly historical not theoretical. Arthur Kitson had more direct influence on Douglas than Del Mar. Douglas was certainly in the greebacker-populist tradition. One of his books was dedicated to Kitson.
***>I was just tweaking you, in recollection of your belief that Kelso and Adler stole their idea about the cultural inheritance (capital) from Douglas. <***
I can't say about Adler. I am quite confident that Kelso was a thief. By that I mean the claims to originality. He was a pompous little fellow with delusions of grandeur. Douglas made no such claims. Indeed, he tried to demonstrate in every instance that leading authorities in the literature confirmed his thought. Even where he was original he demurred taking credit for it.
***>it seems to me that it is pretty difficult to take the trench without an army. <***
There was then an army and the army did have some success in New Zealand, as it did in Alberta. It may even have had some success in regard to the national regime in Canada, if what COMER says is true about Canadian Central Bank policy during and after WWII. That is an aspect of the matter I'm trying to clarify, as per the question I posed to you a couple of weeks ago. It may even have had some influence in the USA, if the WWII Fed policy of purchasing Treasury securities directly from Treasury at near zero coupon rates can be taken to be an indication. That was a big though largely untold factor in our victory and subsequent post-war prosperity.
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