“The relevance of Moses’ economics to our own tax-burdened days is startling” proclaimed The Viking Press’ blurb for Francis Neilson’s book “The Eleventh Commandment” on its release in 1933. However, during those early days of the Great Depression, policy makers made...
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Clyde Cameron advocates for Land Tax in Federal Parliament: 1968
Mr. Clyde Cameron AO was the member for Hindmarsh in South Australia. These speech extracts were published in Progress Magazine, December 1968. One of the biggest difficulties for people wanting to build a house today is to find a suitable block of land at a decent...
The Natural Source of Public Revenue
By Clare Tindall. This is an excerpt of a piece that was originally presented almost 50 years ago, at a Georgist Youth Night in 1967. It was published in the October 1967 edition of Progress Magazine. It is at such a time as this, when we are filling out our taxation...
An Economic Story for Artists
by Pat Aller Arden, Delaware July, 1999 The Georgist Philosophy in Culture and History: How to Broaden Our Focus to Strengthen Our Message. We've been asking this question for over a century. The very fact that we are in Arden attests to George's influence on culture...
Directly or indirectly, we all pay income tax
The mascot of the anti-land-tax campaign is the “poor widow” — you know, the one who will allegedly be forced out of her home because she doesn't have the cash flow to pay the tax on the astronomical value of the land under her house, and who...
Lessons from Manhattan
photo credit: atomicshark“The devil is in the details.” German Proverb A fascinating paper on Manhattan real estate in the 1920-39 era shows why property went down, stayed down and didn’t recover in real terms until 1960. ‘Real Estate Prices During the Roaring...
Walter Burley Griffin and Canberra’s early history
Dr David Headon has put together a revealing document entitled 'Those Other Americans' to celebrate Canberra's early history and their upcoming 2013 centennial. This is a superb introductory document to Georgism (and Australia's early history), with many references to...
Centenary of “The People’s Budget”
An occasional commentary on the economic depression # 3 By Bryan Kavanagh LVRG 5 January 2009, New Year Insights There’s amazing synchronicity in the centenary year of the “People’s Budget”, delivered in the UK under the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, that...
How to thaw credit, now and forever
photo credit: Joel Bedford Mason Gaffney October 25, 2008 In a follow up to Professor Gaffney's The Great Crash of 2008, he now delves into how credit can be freed from the current crisis. The Great Reckoning awaits... 1. Introduction Working capital is the...
Canberra’s Leasehold Land System
by Leo Foley The primary source for this paper is “Canberra in Crisis” by Frank Brennan, 1971 The Road to Leasehold - the origins of the Canberra leasehold system.. Canberra is the offspring of politics and a social ideal. The politics were those of Federation and...