Leading Georgist author Fred Harrison was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week regarding his new book The Silver Bullet. Download his 16 minute interview covering issues such as Botswana’s success, a critique of Jeffery Sach’s Resource Curse theory and…
Hear the author Fred Harrison interviewed on the Renegade Economists tomorrow. Make sure you are podcasting us so you never miss the show. Fred Harrison’s new book levels some very serious charges at the current leaders of the poverty industry.…
Tuesday July 22nd at 6.45pm for 7pm, Level 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melb Join us for a warm night of films! See the Earthsharing Challenge film Who Owns Anglesea? This 10 minute short film shines a spotlight on housing affordability…
The tax unit for an asset-holding tax should be the asset! Gavin Putland Recommendation 10 of the Draft Report of the IPART Review of State Taxation suggests “changing the tax unit for land tax from joint ownership to the individual”…
Desperation in the housing market is leading to varied responses. The latest the Age has promoted is the Container Home phenomenon. Miners earning $100,000 have been forced into them in Port Headland and other fast growing mining communities. Now a…
Fred E. Foldvary In economics, the waste of resources caused by a tax has two names. One is the “deadweight loss,” a loss to the economy with no offsetting gain. The other name is the “excess burden,” since the burden…
Today’s Age Artice Higher Rentals Seen as Spur for Investment by Chris Vedelago is a good prompter to peer behind the curtains of rental yield. Despite the headline quoting a new report saying that gross rental yields are at an…
Interesting developments in Canberra can be tracked via this ABC report: Buy the house, rent the land: ACT’s new housing plan. As many will know, it’s not the first time this has occurred. Read one of our most popular web…
Letter to the Age Thursday June 26th WHEN we hear that the rental vacancy rate is less than 1% (“$155-a-week Lalor ‘shack’ highlights rental crisis”, The Age, 25/6), we need to remember that this figure includes only dwellings offered “to…
Geoff Forster The International Union for Land Value Taxation is launching a campaign to modify the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Article 3 at present reads: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person. The proposed…