photo credit: papaija2008 Why the social-liberal model has failed. Niels Charlier of the Georgist Education Association of Western Australia. As published in the Progress Winter edition, 2010. Get your free copy here Over the past few decades, the wealth gap in...
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The Counter-Enlightenment
Michael Hudson The Counter-Enlightenment, its Economic Program – and the Classical Alternative Based on a talk given to Prosper Australia on Friday October 16th, 2009. First published in Progress Magazine - Autumn 2010. Download Progress #1096 here. The last few years...
Raising Revenue from Mineral Deposits
photo credit: ToOliver2 Dr Gavin Putland Taken from the Dec - Jan edition of Progress. Download Progress (8MB) If a “site” is a piece of ground or airspace, then the “rent” of the site is simple enough: it is the price per unit time that the highest rational...
New Look Progress Magazine
The new look Progress Magazine, 105 years young, is hitting mailboxes around the country. Get a trial subscription to keep abreast of the frontiers of privatisation and the blowback we are applying. The September edition includes a Hudson special, with leading...
The Economy in Palliative Care
photo credit: movimente David Smiley (To palliate: to relieve a disease without curing) David Smiley analyses the debate started by Kevin Rudd’s essay entitled ‘The Global Financial Crisis’. While the world’s experts are arguing about how to relieve the pain of...
Economic Crisis Unveils Policy Vacuum
photo credit: zachstern Karl Williams Progress Magazine's editorial column. Make sure you sign up to receive a hard copy of our hard hitting magazine - Trial Subscriptions are available. This time of economic crisis is when we make our run. Politicians, think-tanks,...
The Economics of Climate Chaos
Karl Williams July 2008 It’s one thing to calmly read statistics about climate chaos but a completely different experience to hear the frightening stories from the disaffected. In the remote north-eastern Thai province of Nan, listening to a 60-year-old café...
The Crash of 2008
photo credit: mtbdeano Professor Mason Gaffney Get yourself comfortable - this is Must Read! This crash is The Big One; it has the signs of becoming a Category 5. How do we know? We’ve “been there and done that” so many times before, roughly every 18 years over the...
E.J Craigie
“Communally created values must be safeguarded, and it is the function of government to collect into the public treasury the value attaching to land by reason of the presence of the people, as that is the natural source from which public revenue should be drawn.”...
Should Resource Rents Count as National Savings?
photo credit: Torley David Smiley All countries save about 25 percent of what they produce, their Gross Domestic Product or GDP, for investment as capital in future production. In national accounts these “savings” include environmental damage and natural resource...