GetUp flunks economics again
We tried to bring GetUp to speed with housing policy with our Dont Buy Now campaign. They ignored that and continue to ignore basic economic science. More money on a fixed planet is destined to raise land prices. A Land…
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China: should land’s rental value be the basis of the tax system, or that of the financial system?
by Professor Michael Hudson How can China avoid the “Western financial disease” – a real estate bubble followed by defaults and foreclosures? The U.S. and European economies originally sought to avoid this fate by taxing the location’s site value. A…
Winter Boardgame Night
Fri Aug 2nd, 6.30 – 9.30pm 2/22 Punch La, Melbourne Housing advocates, renters, gamers and friends, join us for a night of winter jousting! If you are intrigued about the world's most popular boardgame – Monopoly – and how it…
Privatisation = Disguised Corporate Taxation
Renegade Economists podcast 292 As broadcast on 3CR, Wed June 5th, 2013 Listen to the show Subscribe to the weekly podcast Dr Terry Dwyer (former Treasury economist) continues the investigation into monopoly theory, discussing wasteful competition in what were once…
Hello & Welcome Speech: Punch Lane Launch
Andy Moore, President of Prosper Australia. May 31st, 2013 We are here tonight for the launch of a new look and invigorated think tank – Prosper Australia’s new Punch Lane address – as we migrate closer to the corridors of…
Data Hub
Prosper Australia sees free access to quality land price data as a major way to reduce information asymmetry between buyers and sellers. In other words, it is harder to fool people who know the market price and where it is…
Prosper’s Office Launch Party
In April this year we moved into our new premises at Level 2, 22 Punch Lane Melbourne, still right in the heart of the city but closer to the action in Spring Street. We are excited to invite members and…
Milton Friedman’s Economic Futurism
A 1999 recording where Friedman discusses the need for bitcoin and the use of Land Value Tax to counter the mobility of capital in the internet age. Bitcoin Explained from Duncan Elms on Vimeo.
Political Economy Discounted by Constituent Interests
As published in the Economic Society of Victoria’s Ceteris Paribus. “You have to ask, if those being duped are too naive to complain, and those profiteering are too valuable to upset, is housing affordability a problem for our politicians, or…
On Solid Ground
On Solid Ground from Robert Schalkenbach Foundation on Vimeo. Our US colleagues at Work and Wealth boldly state: We propose to abolish all taxes save those on the value of land, irrespective of the value of the improvements, and the…