I am still in Prague (until tomorrow night), so I can't play this Hulu clip, but anyone interested in a recent review of The End of Poverty should check this ...
... ...if whoever is responsible for the film is prepared to have it put on Hulu, why the heck not on some service that people outside the USA can view? I am...
Jock Coats wrote: ...if whoever is responsible for the film is prepared to have it put on Hulu, why the heck not on some service that people outside the USA...
... Nothing on Hulu is available outside the US as far as I am aware. IP issues I think. Slightly ironic given the criticism of IP included in the film :-) ...
... Good idea. Yet when the film came to my hometown, RSF did not even notify me. Anyway, I'd like to see us notify our contacts about this and many geoist...
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Joshua Vincent
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Aug 2, 2010 8:52 pm
Your comments on the page appreciated! http://www.theday.com/article/20100801/OP05/308019884 Joshua Vincent, Executive Director Center for the Study of...
I have been involved in a long discussion with a correspondent on the relative merits of capital value (CV) and annual rental value (ARV) assessment. The older...
LVT should be levied on (consist of, rather, i.e. be levied at 100%) the ARV of each site as if it were a bare site. The value of improvements should be ...
Ed Milliband the Labour leader in waiting, has just proposed a mansion tax in the UK for houses worth over £2 million. This will tax the Russians and Arabs...
As I recall, Henry, back in the 50s there was a bunch of Australian Georgists who liked CV and were faced with a problem as the amount of Rent collected...
Henry Brighton's article says: "The area included residential property subject to an annual property tax of around £1000 per annum, at the same time as ...
Question: what is the practice/policy for private leasing of public lands in your part of the world? One thing we know about private landowners who offer the...
In Australia from the outset, eg NSW Act of 1905, valuation of capital value or selling price of land has been the basis for local rates and state land tax. ...
... P is the market selling price of land. R is the annual rent. i is the interest rate. t is the tax rate based on P. P = R / (i+t) Suppose R = $100, i = .05,...
Thanks, Mason. That's pretty much the direction I was leaning in anyway. Basically, the market has already priced in the potentialities, up to a point, of...
New York State has finally passed a budget - just 125 days late! It preserves the literal gambling profits from state gaming machines, as well as the disguised...
Hi Scott! I take a different point of view, as you might expect. The importance of land-value map, or perhaps we should call it Rent map, is that it is easy to...
... By realise, I mean the value is actually released. It is the same as taxing the Rembrandt painting picture on someones wall. The painting earns nothing,...
... Yes, quite, sooner or later CV assessment has to be abandoned anyway. Significant public land is let eg as social housing at below market rents. This is...
... t= 0.15, but of what? Yes, tax will reduce the price of land. That is surely one of the problems with using CV as a basis for LVT? But leaving aside hope...
I found this interview with San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro after a blurb in an article called "How Texas Is Dominating the Recession" said that the mayor...
<blockquote>Putting a price on carbon is ''a no brainer'' and should be the first priority of any government, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz...
I agree with Bernard that carbon trading is evil and 'carbon tax' better. However, I would not call it a "tax". Rather, it should be seen as a form of Site...
... The price P. ... The same tax amount based on rent instead of price will reduce the price by the same amount, since the price is proportional to the rent. ...
