Wolf Ladejinsky
Wolf Isaac Ladejinsky (March 15, 1899 – July 3, 1975) was an American
Georgist agricultural economist and researcher, serving first in the
United States Department of Agriculture, then the
Ford Foundation and later the
World Bank. He was a key adviser on
land reform to the governments of several Asian countries, including Japan from 1945 to 1954 (during the
Occupation) as well as
Mainland China and later
Taiwan under
Chiang Kai-shek,
South Vietnam from 1955 to 1961 under
Ngo Dinh Diem, and countries in Southeast Asia and the
Indian subcontinent. His efforts in Japan and Taiwan were a striking success, but his later efforts were frustrated by political persecution. Improving the welfare of Asian farmers through
agrarian reform was his goal throughout his long career, earning him praise as "no typical bureaucrat, but an impassioned reformer"
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