Prosper’s 120th Annual Dinner

by | Aug 17, 2011 | Past Events

photo credit: JD Hancock You are cordially invited to a special night for everyone interested in the great Georgist themes of economic efficiency and social justice. 120TH ANNUAL COMMEMORATION DINNER Thursday 1st September 2011 6 pm Gathering time – 7 pm Dinner...

Overindulgence has its consequences.

by | Aug 10, 2011 | Articles

There are currently 377,300 houses for sale across Australia, according to SQM Research data released today – up 21.9 per cent on last year. Why is this significant? Well, we have some 8.9 million houses. A quick back of the envelope calculation tells me 3.79...

Land Tax REDUCES Rents

by | Aug 10, 2011 | Letters to the Editor

Dr Gavin Putland of the Land Values Research Group drives a stake through a vampire heart in the Letters page of today’s Australian Financial Review Joanne Seve (Letters, August 5) regurgitates the property lobby’s favourite untruth, namely that land tax...

How Much Land Does A Man Need?

by | Aug 7, 2011 | Talking Points

At this market climax, let me remind all of the risks of compulsive, over-optimistic ambition. In Leo Tolstoys’ tale, ‘How Much Land Does A Man Need?’ written in 1886, a wealthy peasant named Pahlom is told of the rich earth in the land of the Bashkirs beyond the...