by Lindy Davies
Economists seem to be on a mission to maximize complexity. Things like, say, monetary policy seem steeped in cabalistic alchemy far beyond the ken of normal citizens. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Issue #115
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
by Polly Cleveland
Humans evolved in small highly-cooperative groups. Today’s surviving hunter-gatherer societies, like the !Kung of the Kalahari or the Hadza of the Rift Valley, teach toddlers their first lesson: share everything. Continue reading
After the Crash: Designing a Depression-Free Economy
review by Lindy Davies
“The new Mason Gaffney book” is a major event – well, among Georgists, anyway – and I’m going to rave about it. It’s as clear a statement as one is likely to find of a message that desperately needs hearing. Continue reading
Letter to My Georgist Friends
by Mark Koerner
Although I don’t call myself a “Georgist” and never have been part of your movement, I sympathize with your goals for a number of reasons, the main one being that I believe that the land value tax is far superior to the traditional property tax. Continue reading
The Land Question in Europe: Victim of The Great Depression and Total War?
by Edward J. Dodson
Students of the history of the Georgist cause generally appreciate that the First and Second World Wars had the effect of diverting public and political attention from the plague of land monopoly and the solutions advanced by the successors to Henry George’s global campaign of the 1880s and 1890s. Continue reading
Interest, Time, and Capital
by Fred Foldvary
The way Henry George defined “interest” in Progress and Poverty, Book III, Chapter 3, and in other works, is quite different from how the term has been used in economics and by most people in the 20th and 21st centuries. Continue reading
That ‘The Earth Belongs to Everybody’
by Richard Giles
That the earth belongs equally to everybody is a very attractive proposition. In fact, if the earth could be owned that is the way we would like to own it. Many Georgists believe it is the way to have equal rights in land. Continue reading
Tax Set-Off: From Negative Gearing to Blast-off!
by Robert Keall
The rebating or set-off of tax losses against other income, currently used to promote investment in tax-free capital gains and to reduce income tax, can as well be used to implement Resource Rentals, now! Continue reading
Henry George Institute Update!
You might not expect much news from the Institute. You know us pretty well. Started in 1971. Membership organization. Correspondence courses. Ho-hum. Well, the news is that as of right now, the Henry George Institute is devising an expanded mission, and a more challenging definition of success. Continue reading
CGO Conference Explores Tools, Strategies, Partnerships
While the 30th annual conference of the Council of Georgist Organizations accomplished no “outreach” on its own, it did achieve a substantial sharing of the various tools and techniques we use in our year-round outreach work. Continue reading