(1874 – 1965) This is one of our 50 famous biographies we are uploading by former Progress editor Karl Williams. See more “The socially-produced value of the land is reaped by the speculator in exact proportion, not to the service,…
Today is a testing day for economic democracy with the announcement the Australian Valuation Office will be closed. The office has for 104 years valued our land – and was the cornerstone of the first federal tax office – the…
Saul Eslake has hit the press (p3 of the AFR – paywalled) with his submission to the Senate Committee on Housing Affordability. The submission is largely based on his 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative dinner presentation. Saul again reiterates his…
Cross Posted from Monmouth University The Physiocrats Ordell P. Olson Assistant Professor of Economics France, at the end of the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century, was gradually going bankrupt. Wars were depleting both the natural and human resources of…
Letters to the Editor Australian Financial Review LAND BENEFITS The comment by Marcus Spiller (AFR 3-5 January, Our cities should be allowed to water their own green shoots) on why per kl charging for water was better than “property” taxes…
This interview has gone viral with over a dozen sites posting it, including Naked Capitalism, Truth Out and Max Keiser. Prof Michael Hudson was interviewed on the Renegade Economists radio/ podcast entitled Crony Competition on the road to Unearned Income:…
As published today on Truthout The wealth gap is dividing society at an astonishing rate as the lessons from the Great Recession are helicoptered away. QE3 has worked for Wall St but little else. Over 30 nations are facing the…
The Total Resource Rents of Australia report finds the complete removal of income, company and sales tax is possible by replacement with a tax on monopolies such as water trading, cyber squatting, taxi licenses and land. “Economists have for hundreds…
Major Findings The Total Resource Rents of Australia report finds: The influence of monopoly is 10 times greater than mainstream economists acknowledge. Economic rents are a significant component of the Australian economy, comprising 23.6% of GDP. Almost half of all…
2013 Clyde Cameron Memorial Lecture Saturday 14th December 2pm-5pm Keynote Speaker: Mr. Jack Waterford A.M. University House Hall, 1 Balmain Crescent, ANU J.E. (Jack) Waterford is an Australian journalist and commentator who is now Editor-at-Large of The Canberra Times. Jack…