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Article: Autobiographical sketch of Philip Denny Day (1924--).
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
- Author:
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Land owes nothing to a precise moment of revelation or intuitive conviction. Instead, experience acquired variously, and largely fortuitously, in public administration, urban and regional planning and development, and multidisciplinary academic inquiry gradually led me over time to a realization that puzzling features of contemporary attitudes to land and property and public revenue raising were seemingly embedded in a curiously pervasive mindset.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, I graduated in law from the University of Queensland in 1953 after seven years in the Australian Army, three of them as an army-trained Japanese linguist in the British Commonwealth ...