by Lindy Davies
An interesting email thread recently has seen a bunch of our colleagues bringing up the Georgist-themed songs on their personal playlists. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Issue #117
Rent: Surplus Product, or Surplus Profit?
by Richard Giles
Recent attempts at legislation to tax minerals in Australia (iron and coal) :have highlighted ambiguity in the term “economic rent.” Several Australian Georgists seem happy to follow conventional usage, and call economic rent a super profit. Continue reading
The Predator Culture
The Systemic Roots and Intent of Organized Violence
by Fred Harrison (2010, Shepheard-Walwyn, 172 pp.) Review by Lindy Davies
There’s no namby-pamby incrementalism in Fred Harrison’s latest book. The Predator Culture goes for it. Continue reading
Bastiat’s Broken-Window Error
by Dan Sullivan
Failure to appreciate the economic Law of Rent, or to recognize that interferences with the natural laws of distribution spawn interferences with production, leads one to conclusions that seem to make perfect sense, but which don’t reconcile with reality An example of this is in Bastiat’s essay, “What is Seen and Not Seen,” often referred to as “The Broken- Window Fallacy.”
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Good Ideas (Eventually) Get Noticed
by Lindy Davies
In recent months we have seen a number of positive references to rent-as-revenue in the news. These recommendations haven’t made “page one,” of course; the first-string media in this day and age is all caught up in the modern madness of “the news cycle” — beating all the other outlets to the same item (often enough, the latest antics of Sheen or Lohan). Not so far under the surface, though, unmistakable currents of common sense are rising. Continue reading
Let’s Abolish Slavery
by Lindy Davies
Let’s say it’s 1750, and our goal is to rid the world of slavery. There is a group of us, but not so very many. We have truth — and time — on our side, but our wealthy opponents line the corridors of power. What shall we do? Continue reading