LVT News Digest - 1 June 2008 ... Taking the bull by the horns on the land question Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya “The Government should take advantage of the...
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Does anyone have a Georgist explanation (and solution) for the current crisis in global food supply? Best wishes, Andrew Andrew Duffield Parliamentary...
I'm thinking back to a chapter in Michael Rowbotham's "Grip of Death" on agriculture and farming and a chap who helps out with Bromsgrove and CCMJ type stuff I...
Andrew, Whatever problems inflict the heavily tariffed and heavily subsidized food supplies of the world, there is an underlying problem that must be solved. ...
... It's obvious. The massive taxpayer-funded subsidies to farmland owners in advanced industrialized countries have undermined food production in poor...
... Yes. 1) End subsidies for landowners, especially for agri-business in the 1st World, so they (a) can no longer undercut farmers in the 3rd World and (b)...
How bad is wealth concentration on this side of the Atlantic and Pacific? Here are some indicators that just came my way: In 2004, over 2.3 million Americans...
If wealth concentration data interests you, you might want to check out the data at wealthandwant.com. I have sliced and diced the Federal Reserve Board 2004...
Hi nb Conference on Transport in Beijing, 16th to 21st July this year is looking for speakers. If you are interested please let me know. They will normally pay...
Hi Jinhua Sorry for the delay but with no secretary, no PowerPoint on my home PC, and much to do my life is a bit unsettled at the moment. I do hope all is...
Hi,
Please ciculate Jinhua's e-mail to our colleagues and acquaintances.
Jinhua Zhao is a PhD student at MIT but has spent the last couple of years
in London...
University of Pennsylvania professor of history, Jules Benjamin has written a provocative commentary on the U.S. economy that appears today at the Hisotyr News...
See http://www.itdp.org/documents/Part(Intro)%202007%2009.pdf for brochure dated June, 2007 on Bus Rapid Transit produced in New York. Among a long list of...
If in London you may wish to attend and enter the debate at LSE how economics should be taught. (Unfortunately next week I shall be speaking at a conference in...
Hi! I was looking for something else when I came across this post of mine which I had labeled "Nic's Conundrum". I'll copy this to Nic to confirm I got the...
... No, it doesn't. Buildings don't increase the value of land. The skyscraper can't increase the value of the lot it sits on or the value of every other...
Jones may have a lot of different reasons for buying the 2nd property. He might think the asking price was low, given what was going on in the city. He may...
If all the infrastructure is provided privately, then the LVT collected by government should include only the natural rent (from advantages not created by...
... If one landlord owned an entire city, who'd be entitled to the rent? to the spending for the right to occupy a location? no matter what's on or near it?...
On Jun 13, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Fred Foldvary wrote: If all the infrastructure is provided privately, then the LVT collected by government ... the ideal building,...
Fred, Sorry to be so long responding. I mark good messages for reply then they disappear under a flood of E-Mails. I'll reply below in bold red between lines. ...
Mase, Can't remember whether I read RUR - probably did - but I do remember seeing the play. Quarter century after Capek, I think it was Jack Williamson who...
There are now a reported 1,125 billionaires in the world, whose combined net worth is $4.4 trillion. You probably have read about the one hedge fund manager,...
... It depends on the marginal productivity of labor in the intensive margin, where more workers are hired on the same land. If the marginal productivity is...
Fred, Still looking at the good posts I put on the back burner. Everyone knows how the free market works with price changes drawing in goods to the market --...
Ed, As I'm sure you will agree, the problem is not that there are billionaires, but the method by which they acquired their wealth. If someone becomes a...
