by Lindy Davies
This year’s conference began with an excellent, thought-provoking presentation by Andrew Theising on how local real-estate intrigue has kept the East St. Louis waterfront undeveloped. However, the conference as a whole offered little about the reality — or the work to be done — on the ground. Continue reading
by Adam Jon Monroe, Jr.
Helen Keller found in Georgism, “a splendid faith in the essential nobility of human nature.” Indeed, our problem is not with some group. Georgists don’t personally blame landlords for poverty. The tax system forces people to “buy in” or remain disadvantaged. We are trapped by popular ignorance of basic economics. Continue reading
The following article by Roy A. Foulke, retired vice president of Dun & Bradstreet, appeared in the New York Daily News in 1949, and was reprinted in the Henry George News in 1971. Thanks to Ed Dodson.
In Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith pointed out, over and over again, that all production is divided into three streams: one in the form of wages to employees, one in the form of rent to landowners, and one in the form of profits, to suppliers of capital. Continue reading
by Bob Clancy
Democracy, it is said, is not a good form of government; it is simply that every other form is so much worse. Continue reading
by Mason Gaffney
1. Improved allocation is free lunch. The “win-win” deal, if real, is a free lunch. (That’s why trade, when it is uncoerced, yields such strong benefits.) Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
Recently I heard a rather inspiring TED talk by George Monbiot on the notion of “rewilding.” Monbiot was discussing how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park brought about a wonderfully unpredictable series of cascading ecological benefits. It would seem likely that the wolves would help to control the deer population, which they did — but all kinds of other groovy things happened. Continue reading
by Helena Platkin
Some time ago I answered a call for volunteers and found myself in the correspondence course department. What a fascinating adventure It turned out to be! Continue reading
by Dan Sullivan
The health care kerfuffle has got me to thinking about the underlying problem of socialism, which is that it is a distraction from actual justice and rights. Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
We hear that the US Postal Service is about to go belly-up. Mail volume is plummeting; fixed costs are up. They’re actually talking about having to shut down by next summer. I’m aware that many people, including some GJ readers, will not be saddened by this news. Continue reading
Remember back in the 1990s, when the value of land under Tokyo was greater than that of the entire USA? Land booms, alas, don’t last as long as the bizarre building patterns they generate… (from thewondrous.com)
