Posts Tagged ‘introduction’

Economic Misinformation shot down

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

photo credit: rick A few months ago Bryan Kavanagh had this excellent piece published in the Age – Breaking In on the Rent Seekers. It solicited a response from the IPA’s Sinclair Davidson. I probably should have stripped it apart at the time, but was satisfied that Davidson was given much less prominence than Kavanagh [...]

Georgism and the Single Tax on Land:

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Why a 130-Year-Old Idea is Still Relevant Today Jason Bessey Apr 21, 2009 In the late 19th century, the Industrial Revolution was well underway. Society, it would seem, was beginning to make a huge leap in progress in areas like technology and production. In places like California, many places went from camps to cities in [...]

A betterment levy: a cure to current ills

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

photo credit: Nickster 2000   Steven Spadijer in Online Opinion today writes a superbly researched piece on why government’s must consider our policy position. Stop rolling the dice and go with the odds: Exactly 100 years ago Winston Churchill and Lloyd George introduced a radical budget even by today’s standards. The budget introduced a high [...]