Comrade Pollard, Let me be the first to congratulate you for your brilliant exposition of the distinction between "rent" and "rack-rent" provided below. Roy...
Rana Roy
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Feb 1, 2007 4:19 pm
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Hi Harry, If Rent is the product of location and is created by the community then Rent must (at least partially) be wages too (the wages of the labour of the...
Hi Mark M, Excellent, thanks Mark. Clarification of "wages of Labour" as opposed to the "income of Labour consisting of Rent and wages". So it can be said that...
Harry, et al, Honestly, I have no clue, but this may offer an enrty to the puzzle: http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/globalisa...
Dear readers; Today the latest Henry George News appeared. If you're not a subscriber, check out this table of contents - then subscribe - it's free! CONTENTS:...
Paul, Seriously, what is globalization? Harry From: LandCafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LandCafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Metz Sent: Wednesday, January...
Dave Reed, the Vice chair of the Labour Land Campaign has kindly arranged for me to meet the British ambassador for Venezuela. I was most grateful for the...
Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 2, 2007 7:05 am
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Mark Porthouse wrote: Personally I do believe that a small proportion of my labour should be available for those unable to provide for themselves. I sense that...
... Let's be clear. I presume "should be available" means that all workers should be forced to pay some of their wages to the government and then the state...
... All production comes from labor, but not all production is wages. Within the Ricardian rent model, wages at the rent-free fringe are the same as...
It does indeed sound interesting. I'll have to track down a copy for myself. From the summary, it sounds like the argument is "subsidized transportation is...
... While rent is indeed created by human activity, it is important to remember that it is not a portion of actual production, only of POTENTIAL production...
... net. There is a difference between a safety net and a hammock. A cash payment for doing nothing is the latter (when it is not actually a trap or snare...
Hi Fred, See my points below: ... That is entirely accurate. ... So it is purely by unforced, individual goodwill that people who are unable to provide for...
Dave, Google "venezuela land tax" and find very recent news ! Your ambassador may learn more than teach ... Paul Metz _____ From: LandCafe@yahoogroups.com...
As I (and several others, I believe) have pointed out before, it follows from the claim that "the state has caused poverty in the first place" that without...
... Excellent point, it made me smile! So then perhaps the labour of the dead is part of the common inheritance of mankind??? ... Yes, it does seem difficult...
I agree that farm subsidies should go. In fact they do not subsidise farmers as workers or investors but only the owners of farm land. Hence anyone who wants...
Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 4, 2007 2:46 pm
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... Disagreed. Rent payments in cotton bales are portions of actual production. Cash rent payments represent production. When landlords and land tax...
... That analogy loses me, knowing so little about skyscrapers, except the latest is about 50% taller than the current tallest. Wish I'd known this analogy was...
Eddie, you are a good Christian. You live in Australia on a farm and say you don't know who the Duke of Westminster is. Can I tell you a true story? If land is...
Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 4, 2007 2:46 pm
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Mark, I think all primary schools should be local. Probably secondary schools too. I understand that as much as $10,000 per student funds our public schools. ...
Mark, I should begin by saying that Rent is not a "product of location". Rather, it is a value, created by the presence and access of the surrounding ...
Hi Harry, Sorry to mislead you, nothing can be the product of only one factor. I agree, Rent isn't the product of the single factor 'location'. A 'product' is...
... People feel so unworthy. Some won't be happy until they have to pay for the air they breathe, and that day is coming. Rent is a surplus. It's free. It's...
Dave, Privatizing monopoly services is so potty that it should be discarded in Economics 99 – before we even get to Economics 101. The Tory privatizing I...
... Repeating is not proving, or even showing. Please try to explain yourself, concretely, step by step, even with examples. People have a right to a fair...
... USING VON THUNEN MODEL TO CALCULATE RENT Say we want to figure total rent for a model city. We get the numbers of workers for each occupation group. We...
Mark, My comment that " It is not right to collect the wages of Labor and redistribute them ....." referred to rack-rent which describes wages taken by the...
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