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2024

October

Bastiat, quoting Proudhon: "to whom belongs the rent of land?" Oct 27

2023

July

Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5

2022

October

Marmontel: The land is a solemn gift Oct 2

July

2021

July

A 1976 Declaration of Independence Jul 3

2020

September

The Question Before the People, Henry George's election-year speech, San Francisco, 1876-08-15 Sep 13
Congressman Maguire's speech on Chinese Exclusion - October 13 & 14, 1893 — and the remedy Sep 3

August

Monkeys and Men Aug 22
A "Fighting Leaflet" from another time and place, relevant today Aug 22
Single Tax Challenge Aug 22
The Study of Economics Aug 22
Profit Sharing worthy of the name Aug 22
Squirrel Island Aug 21

July

May

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek May 21
Seeing the Cat — Have You Seen the Cat? May 12
Post-script to Seeing the Cat May 11
Poem: Mary and Her Landlord May 7
1897: An Eloquent Tribute to Henry George, in the Sacramento Bee May 6

April

March

Government and Revenue Mar 31
The Single Tax: An Essay on the Single Tax in 50 Words Mar 31
Meum, Tuum and Stealum Mar 28
The milk in our coconut Mar 28

February

The Landlord's Game: a 1911 LTE, likely from Lizzie Magie Feb 27

2019

November

1890-01-10 New York Times editorial on Land Value Taxation: The Taxation Question Nov 13

2018

November

Saving for Retirement Nov 22

July

May

A few more thoughts from Benjamin Franklin May 11
Benjamin Franklin on Free Trade May 11

2017

October

September

A Poem of Political Economy — likely J. W. Bengough, from 1887 Sep 11

January

How Louis CK tells a Joke: Monopoly Jan 21

2016

December

It's Milk That Makes the Cream ... Dec 12
A 1927 article on Taxation Dec 10

November

March

February

Laurie Quinby: hearts and heads Feb 28
Antonin Scalia on Proposition 13 Feb 17
The Henry George Idea in One Hundred Words Feb 14

2015

November

Harry Gunnison Brown, on privilege Nov 11
Steinbeck on land concentration Nov 11
Do we prefer indirect taxation? Nov 11
Frank Chodorov on rent, and who receives it Nov 11
Earth for All: Aldo Leopold Nov 11
Latifundia Nov 11
Natural resources and peace — Snowden Nov 11

July

Swing It Jul 30
The Profit of the Earth Is for All Jul 30
John Dewey's Foreword to Geiger's "The Philosophy of Henry George" (1933) Jul 2

May

Single Tax as a fiscal policy May 24

2014

November

Who Gets the Land Rent, and Why: Two NYC Stories Nov 9

September

August

May

The Ultimate Corporate Subsidy: The Unearned Increment May 30

April

Better Insurance Against Inequality - NYTimes.com Apr 14

March

Republican tax legislation contains a gem: Phase out mortgage deduction Mar 16

February

Beating an Elephant With a Feather - By Steve Hyle Feb 13

January

For the Love of Money Jan 20
Hopelessness Jan 20
Cottage owners in Ontario balk at $6.7M market-value report Jan 7
Conservatives are losing their minds over economic reforms that already exist - Salon.com Jan 7
If government was clever .... Jan 4

2013

December

November

October

Congress's gift to the Pay Day Loan Industry Oct 11

September

Working, Begging or Stealing; Workers, Beggars or Thieves — and putting one's family first Sep 29
John Ruskin on National Debt Sep 29
Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28
The Chicago School Sep 22

August

July

The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27
Louis F. Post on the assessment of land values Jul 14
Rent is not earned by individuals Jul 14
Two eloquent statements about Henry George Jul 12

June

April

March

Hoi oligoi Mar 21
Edgar Guest: Taxes Mar 11
Gems from George: Economic Terms — Land — still more Mar 6
Gems from George: Economic Terms — Land - continued Mar 5
Gems from George: Economic Terms — Land Mar 4
Gems from George: On reasoning Mar 3
Gems from George: of Women, as of Men Mar 2

February

Gems from George: Social Reform Feb 28
Gems from George — The Power of Thought: Trusting Reason Feb 27
Rich and Poor Feb 27
Which Catholic Church? - NYTimes.com Feb 26
Gems from George: Power of Thought - Special Interests Feb 23
Gems from George: "Wise" and "Babes" Feb 22
Gems from George: Politicians, Professors — and the People Feb 21
Gems from George: Social Progress, and Christian Ethics Feb 20
Gems from George: Poverty Kills — Whose Guilt? Feb 19
Gems from George: Social Study Feb 18
Cooper Union’s Tradition of Free Tuition May Be Near End Feb 17
Is "growing the pie" sufficient? Feb 17
Gems from George: More Men, More Yield ... Malthus was wrong! Feb 17
Gems from George: More Men, More Yield — continued Feb 16
Gems from George: More Men, More Yield Feb 15
Gems from George: Nature Inexhaustible — continued Feb 14
Millionaires Consider Leaving California Over Taxes - NYTimes.com Feb 13
Faced With Apartment Shortage, Brokers Get Creative Feb 13
Paying Top Dollar for Condos, and Leaving Them Empty Feb 13
Gems from George: Nature Inexhaustible Feb 13
Gems from George: Poverty Unnatural — continued Feb 12
Gems from George: Poverty Unnatural Feb 11
Inequalities Feb 10
Gems from George: The Savage and the Modern Workman Feb 10
Ethics of Piracy Feb 9
Gems from George: the 14th century and the 19th — progress? Feb 9
Gems from George: The Costs to Society of Inequality and Poverty Feb 8
Gems from George: Progress, and Poverty Feb 7
Gems from George: Poverty Amid Progress Feb 6
Gems from George: Progress — and Poverty Feb 5
Introducing "Gems from George" Feb 4
Gems from George: The Influence of an Individual Feb 1
The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 32 — Massasoit Feb 1

January

2012

December

The Earth-for-All Calendar is going into Undecimber Dec 31
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 31 — Exodus, Carlyle and Woolman Dec 31
The Mortgage on the Farm Dec 30
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 30 — Dove Dec 30
Why don't we tax away economic rent instead of taxing production? Dec 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 29 — Sumner Dec 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 28 — Thorold Rogers Dec 28
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 27 — Cardinal Manning Dec 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 26 — Cardinal Vaughan Dec 26
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 25 — St. Luke Dec 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 24 — Sue Dec 24
Marin Voice: Is it time to take on Proposition 13? - Marin Independent Journal Dec 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 23 — Wagner Dec 23
The Community is Entitled ... Dec 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 22 — Tolstoy Dec 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 21 — St. Ambrose and Dr. McGlynn Dec 21
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 20 — Blackstone Dec 20
Taxing Church Property Dec 19
Everybody is out of town ... Dec 19
Philosophicus, on the FIRE sector Dec 19
Henry George's chapter in McNeill's "The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today" (1887) Dec 19
another post, of mouths and pairs of hands Dec 19
With Every Pair of Hands ... Henry George, and Paul Samuelson Dec 19
Sprawl is Not a New Problem Dec 19
Who Benefits by Single Tax? Dec 19
Foresters Fined for Improving Town (1903) Dec 19
Herbert Bigelow: Saving Souls from Hell Dec 19
Baltimore Ground Rents — some history and some principles Dec 19
Tom Johnson, on the Earth, and privilege Dec 19
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 19 — Pufendorf Dec 19
a Doxology from 1903 Dec 18
The Rich Man and the Mule Dec 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 18 — Voltaire Dec 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 17 — Carlyle Dec 17
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 16 — Grant Allen Dec 16
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 15 — Red Jacket Dec 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 14 — Pope Dec 14
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 13 — Horace Dec 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 12 — Emerson Dec 12
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 11 — Tolstoy Dec 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 10 — Spencer Dec 10
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 9 — Murray and Arnold Dec 9
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 8 — Bird and Cooper Dec 8
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 7 — Schiller Dec 7
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 6 — Sand Dec 6
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 5 — Sismondi Dec 5
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 4 — Mathilde Blind Dec 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 3 — John Bright Dec 3
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 2 — Cobden Dec 2
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 1 — Thorold Rogers Dec 1

November

October

September

August

July

The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 31 - John Stuart Mill Jul 31
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 30 — Wallace Jul 30
On land producing income for local communities — with thoughts of Ipswich's Little Neck "trust" Jul 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 29 — Ecclesiastes Jul 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 28 — William Morris Jul 28
Getting wealthy in public office Jul 27
The Single Tax — a succinct 1911 description Jul 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 26 — Walker Jul 26
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 25 — Ruskin Jul 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 24 — Burke Jul 24
Plenty of room? Jul 23
A thought for an election year, from 1887 Jul 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 23 — Herbert Spencer Jul 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 22 — Micah Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 21 — John Bright Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 20 — Godwin Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 19 — Giffen and Sismondi Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 18 — Gerrit Smith Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 17 — Dove Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 16 — Charles Kingsley Jul 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 15 — Coleridge Jul 15
What we propose — and the alternative Jul 14
Bankrupt in California Jul 14
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 14 — Ogilvie Jul 14
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 13 — Tolstoy Jul 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 12 — Sanscrit Deed and Carlyle Jul 12
Our Gardenbrain Economy - NYTimes.com Jul 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 11 — Amos Jul 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 10 — Goldsmith Jul 10
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 9 — anonymous — Chants of Labor Jul 9
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 8 — Robert Buchanan Jul 8
1886 and 2012 — what has changed? Jul 7
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 7 — John Stuart Mill Jul 7
The Downside of Liberty - NYTimes.com Jul 6
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 6 — John Boyle O'Reilly Jul 6
Ebenezer Elliott: Land Jul 6
Doughnuts Defeating Poverty - NYTimes.com Jul 5
A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All - NYTimes.com Jul 5
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 5 — Goethe Jul 5
High Rent as the Best Manure Jul 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 4 — Horace Greeley and Henry George Jul 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 3 - Simon Newcomb Jul 3
The Mother of all Monopolies Jul 2
Good Foundations Jul 2
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 2 — Emerson Jul 2
Robbery Jul 1
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 1 Jul 1

June

May

The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 31 — Gerrit Smith May 31
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 30 — John Brown May 30
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 29 — Ruskin May 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 28 — Froude May 28
An Address to the Churches (1899) May 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 27 — Leviticus and Aristotle May 27
Henry George's teaching in a nutshell May 26
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 26 — Winstanley May 26
From "The New Earth," December 1899 May 25
The Lock-Out May 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 25 — Carlyle May 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 24 — Willis May 24
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 23 — Tecumseh May 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 22 — Black Hawk May 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 21 — Emerson May 21
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 20 — Bishop Nulty May 20
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 19 — Allen May 19
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 18 — Hobson May 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 17 — Wilcox May 17
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 16 — Lord Byron May 16
No one generation of people has ... May 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 15 — Carlyle May 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 14 — Ricardo and Mill May 14
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 13 — Thorold Rogers May 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 11 — Gibbon May 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 10 — Schopenhauer May 10
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 9 — Plato, quoting Socrates May 9
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 8 — Harrison May 8
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 7 — Spencer May 7
Collecting our economic rent May 6
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 5 — Winstanley May 5
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 6 — Genesis May 5
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 4 — Martineau May 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 3 — Horace Greeley May 3
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 2 — Schopenauer May 2
The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 2 — Williams May 2
The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 1 — Ruskin May 1

April

The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 30 — Henry George Apr 30
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 29 — Newman Apr 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 28 — Lactantius Apr 28
My Faith-Based Retirement Apr 28
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 27 — Pufendorf Apr 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 26 — Red Jacket Apr 26
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 25 — Necker Apr 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 24 — Mill and Paine Apr 24
An easy way to save the world: phase out all taxes. Apr 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 22 — Genesis and Carlyle Apr 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 21 — George Eliot Apr 21
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 20 — Gerald Massey Apr 20
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 19 — Goethe Apr 19
Sagacity Apr 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 18 — Dante Apr 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 17 — Charles Kingsley Apr 17
Parking Revenue funds "Room for All" Apr 16
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 16 — Swedenborg and Ruskin Apr 16
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 15 — St. John Apr 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 14 — George Eliot Apr 14
Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13
The Last Remnant of Sorcery Apr 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 12 — Blake Apr 12
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 11 — Richard Jefferies Apr 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 10 — Goldsmith Apr 10
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 9 — Dickens Apr 9
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 8 — Thomas Hood Apr 8
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 7 — Lowell Apr 7
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 6 — Thorold Rogers Apr 6
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 5 Apr 5
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 4 — Cardinal Vaughan Apr 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 3 — Tolstoy Apr 3
Dodgers deal exposes Prop. 13 loophole Apr 3
Is the Philly Land Bank Going to Be a Tool for NIMBYism? Apr 3
Verily We Are a Great People Apr 2
Goldsmith, a supplement to the "Earth for All" collection Apr 1
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1

March

The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 30 — Emperor Joseph II Mar 30
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 29 — Dove Mar 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 28 — Cadwalader Golden Mar 28
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 26 - Spinoza Mar 26
The Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25
The Unearned Increment, and Land Speculation Mar 25
Walt Rybeck and "Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle" at Busboys and Poets 4/2 Mar 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 25: Bishop Nulty Mar 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 24 — Thomas Arnold Mar 24
Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 23 - Voltaire Mar 23
Updating the Property Assessment from 1968 Mar 22
The Arts & Crafts Community at Arden, Delaware Mar 22
The Revolutionary Tendencies of the Age Mar 22
The Land Questions: #40: promoting urban housing for all who want it Mar 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 22 — Sheldon Amos and Marmontel Mar 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 21 — John Stuart Mill Mar 21
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 20 — Les Miserables Mar 20
Bob Andelson: The Earth is the Lord's! Mar 19
Bob Andelson: An Open Letter to Pope John Paul II Mar 19
Henry Ware Allen: Special Privilege Mar 19
Potential growth: Forever poorer? | The Economist Mar 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 18 - Nehemiah Mar 17
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 19 - Plutarch Mar 17
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 17 - Dove Mar 17
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 16 — Thomas Hughes Mar 16
Jefferson: The earth as a common stock for all Mar 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 15 - Gladstone Mar 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 14 - Coleridge Mar 14
What the law ought to be Mar 14
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 13 - Marmontel, Pliny Mar 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 12 - Cable, Wallace Mar 12
The Land Questions: #39 Mar 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 11 - Pope Gregory the Great Mar 11
Free Trade, Free Land and Free Men (1888 Brooklyn Eagle Article) Mar 10
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 10 - Thoreau Mar 10
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 9 — Spence Mar 9
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 8 - Emerson Mar 8
The Land Questions: #35 — the land in the path of progress (1) Mar 7
To fight the effect, while feeding the cause ... and our laws Mar 7
The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 7 — Edward Carpenter Mar 7
The Land Questions: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 6 — Abbe Lamennais Mar 6
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 5 — Schiller Mar 5
The Land Questions: #34 — land and slaves for widows Mar 5
Letter: Reform Proposition 13 Mar 4
Tax Rolls Reveal Cars Of The Rich (But Not Horses) Mar 4
The Land Questions: #33 — Water Rights Mar 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 4 — Milton Mar 4
The Land Questions: #32: Crop subsidies Mar 3
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 3 — Goldsmith Mar 3
The Land Questions: #31 - The Right to Life Mar 2
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 2 — Coleridge Mar 2
The Land Questions: #30 — Public Lands Mar 1
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 1 — Locke Mar 1

February

January

The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 31 — Joaquin Miller Jan 31
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 30 — Sir Thomas More Jan 30
Wasserman: The Ethics of Land-Value Taxation Jan 29
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 29 — Spence Jan 29
The Slots: NY Airports Account for Half of All Delays Jan 28
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 28 — Archdeacon Paley Jan 28
WSJ LTE: incentives for growth in cities Jan 27
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 27 — Deed of Gift, and Whitman Jan 27
When Historians are Paid $25,000 a Month Jan 26
Mark Twain on the Income Tax: 'The Mysterious Visit' Jan 26
Economic Security and Control Over One's Own Life Jan 26
The Renegade Ecologist Jan 26
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 26 — Robert Bird Jan 26
What do our college and graduate students learn? Jan 25
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 25 — Sir Thomas More Jan 25
Gavin Putland: All the way with Hazlitt - as far as he goes - Jan 24
Pine Nuts: So how are those Super PACs working for you? Jan 24
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 24 — Villari Jan 24
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 23 — Shelley Jan 23
Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22
The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 22 — Goldsmith Jan 22
Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21
Social Problems Jan 21
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 21 — Lowell Jan 21
The Economic and the Political; The Philosophic and the Ethical Jan 20
Tax Incidence, Land Values and Externalities Jan 20
A Statement of Beliefs, and Purposes of the Movement Jan 20
Government's role Jan 20
FDR on revenue and spending Jan 20
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 20 — Freeman Jan 20
Romney Says His Tax Rate Is Around 15 Percent Jan 19
Land Speculation Jan 19
The Earth-for-All Calendar for January 19 — Ovid Jan 19
An American Georgist visits New Zealand, circa 1962 Jan 18
A Penny Post Card Jan 18
Vie Peterson on Henry George's one tax Jan 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar for January 18 — Tibullus Jan 18
The Earth-for-All Calendar for January 17: Shakespeare Jan 17
Assessments: Who Writes This Stuff? Jan 16
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 16: Emile Zola Jan 16
Michigan - Bridge Owner Is Released - NYTimes.com Jan 15
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 15 — Joaquin Miller Jan 15
China's skyscraper craze 'may herald economic crash' Jan 14
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 14: Micah Jan 14
Some thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan 13
The 2012 Elections Jan 13
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 13 — Ogilvie and Emerson Jan 13
New Class in Chicago: After the Crash | hgchicago.org Jan 12
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 12 — Maine and Kant Jan 12
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 11: Justin Jan 11
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 10 — Virgil Jan 10
Secret to adequate transit funding in half a sentence | The Menace of Privilege Jan 9
Man and his Mother Earth Jan 9
Clothing, Feeding, Burying Jan 9
David Cay Johnston: Is It Is Time To Drop Income Taxes? Jan 9
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 9 — Jefferson Jan 9
The Laffer Curve Jan 8
Today's economic problems aren't new Jan 8
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 8 — Bishop Nulty of Meath, Giffen Jan 8
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 7 — Psalms and Locke Jan 7
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 6 — Tacitus, Spencer and Blackstone Jan 6
Land Speculation, and How to Stop It Jan 5
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 5 - John Ball, in Wat Tyler Jan 5
In Arden Town (1914) Jan 4
Manifest Destiny Jan 4
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 4 — Marmontel and Seneca Jan 4
Frederick Monroe's letter to his son John Lawrence Monroe Jan 3
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 3 — Mark Twain Jan 3
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 2 — The Heritage Comes Back to All! Jan 2
Edward J. Dodson / How Henry George's Principles Were Corrupted Into the Game Called Monopoly Jan 1
2011 Action Teaching Award Winner: Intergroup Monopoly: A Lesson on the Enduring Effects of Inequality Jan 1
The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 1 — And claim the Earth for All! Jan 1
Introducing Ernest Crosby's "Earth for All" Calendar Jan 1

2011

December

The School Lunch Barometer Dec 31
Taxes kill jobs Dec 27
Seeing the Cat Dec 27
Opportunity has a name: it's called land Dec 26
R's, D's and I's Dec 26
A More Just, Verdant and Peaceful World Dec 26
Immigration and The Land Question Dec 26
Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. - NYTimes.com Dec 26
Feoffees to sell land for $32.5M Dec 21
"It was there for the taking" Dec 18
Social Problems Dec 18
Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18
Wealth Concentration and Trinity Church (Wall Street) Dec 17
Facts & other stubborn things Dec 16
15,000 contractors costing how much? Dec 15
Elizabeth Taylor's Jewelry Dec 14
Advertising on the Presidential Debate Dec 10
The Superficial Reformer Dec 4
Financing The Guernsey Market Dec 4
Frances Willard's Single Tax Catechism. Dec 3
Building a Railroad, and Paying for It — and Who Benefits? Dec 3
Jefferson's Principles Dec 3
What government should be doing: infrastructure Dec 3
Charity or Justice: How We Treat the Poor Dec 3
Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3
Laws, justice and equity Dec 2
Pointers on the Single Tax Dec 2
Young Men and Their Opportunities - 1896 and today Dec 2

November

The Problem with the Greek Property Tax Nov 30
Franklin Hichborn: The Single Tax — with a good graphic Nov 28
Bolton Hall: A Social Arrangement Nov 28
The Tax Even Grover Norquist Should Love Nov 28
Things to Tax Nov 28
Single Tax vs Socialism Nov 27
Rent and the Cost of War Nov 24
Lucy and the Football Nov 23
Three ways to combat rising inequality Nov 22
Are We Socialists? Nov 21
Bolton Hall: The Single Tax Nov 21
Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Nov 20
The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1% Nov 18
Progress: Sharing the Earth So All May Prosper - September-November issue Nov 16
How to End Poverty - YouTube Nov 15
Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4
William A. Niskanen, a Blunt Libertarian Economist, Dies at 78 Nov 2
Edmund Vance Cooke: Thanksgiving Nov 1
How Wealth Concentrates: The Dartmouth College Case Decision Nov 1

October

CBO - Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 Oct 26
California Diminished by Tax Revolt of 1978 Shows How U.S. Invites Decline Oct 23
I.R.S. Raises Maximum Annual 401(k) Contribution Oct 21
LVT vs 90-9-9 Oct 18
Nein nein nein to the 9-9-9 tax plan - Fred Foldvary Oct 18
Wealth Concentration data Oct 16
Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1 Oct 15
0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15
Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9
The Owners of the United States Oct 6
Thomas G. Shearman: Henry George's 'Mistakes' Oct 6
Frances Willard, anti-poverty activist Oct 4
Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2

September

Taking the Professor for a Ride Sep 29
LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26
What's an intact tire and your car's alignment worth to you, per year? Sep 25
Are Public Sector Jobs, by Definition, a Drain on the Economy? Sep 24
NYT: Whatever Happened to the American Left? Sep 24
Shoppers' wisdom Sep 23
The Golden Rule: Equal Rights to all and special privileges to none Sep 20
The FIRE sector Sep 19
Robert Reich: Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class Sep 18
Amazon Pushes Hard to Kill a California Sales Tax Sep 5
Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4
Public Revenue for Libraries Sep 4

August

Stock Market Gyrations Aug 18
Russia's Economic Interests (Part 1) | Credit Writedowns Aug 13
U.S. Seeks to Rent Out Its Foreclosures Aug 13
THE RIOTS Aug 9
Who benefits when America sells off our airwaves? Aug 2

July

June

PETER MEAKIN: Let the state take land rents instead of taxes Jun 30

May

April

February

High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26
Justice, Order — what do we value? Feb 25
Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21
Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16
What should we tax? Feb 10
Some 1927 wisdom for New Jersey in 2011 Feb 10
Riches from real estate: cui bono? Feb 10
Sources of great fortunes Feb 10
Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10
Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services Feb 10
Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10
John Dewey on "Progress and Poverty" Feb 7

January

Cornell West on justice Jan 23
An early ad for The Landlord's Game Jan 23
Play "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit," a UK version of "The Landlords Game" (Monopoly) Jan 23
Lizzie Magie's 1902 commentary on The Landlords' Game, on which Monopoly is based Jan 22
A bit of doggerel, with a point Jan 16
Politics ... Economics ... Philosophy ... Values Jan 16
Financing the Subway Jan 16
Progress, Charity, — and Justice Jan 16
Jack Oliver, Who Proved Continental Drift, Dies at 87 Jan 13
The Corruption of Economics Jan 8
1915 Commission's report and 2011's scenario Jan 8
Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6
Movements for improving the condition of the unemployed Jan 6
Our System of Taxation Jan 6
The New Nobility Jan 6
Are Large Fortunes Legitimate? Jan 6
Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6
Observing the controversy: who is probably in the right of it? Jan 6
A Convention Prayer Jan 5
Tolstoy Remains Snubbed in Russia Jan 4

2010

December

November

A Hedge Fund Republic? - NYTimes.com Nov 30
What Tolstoy Taught: The Great Iniquity Nov 28
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28
David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25
Some additional data on wages Nov 24
The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22
James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20
Innumeracy in America Nov 17
Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14
Noah and climate change Nov 14
Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14
God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13
Land Grab in Ipswich, Massachusetts: Little Neck's 32 acres Nov 12
Wages in America (2009) Nov 10
Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7
Get Rich Quick Scheme Nov 7
The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor: Lizzie Magie and the Landlord's Game Nov 6
An Irishman's Diary: Monopoly and the Landlord's Game Nov 5

October

Mice, Cats and Elections Oct 31
A Hudson Tunnel That Goes One Way Oct 29
Going to Washington-D-C, WashDC here we come ... Oct 27
One Nation, Two Deficits — and how to fix things Oct 15
Mason Gaffney: Denying Inflation: Who, Why, and How Oct 15
Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15
Private equity firms eyeing Yahoo Oct 15
The November U.S. Senate Elections Oct 15
Trickle Down Economics: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell (Frank Rich, NYT) Oct 13
Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor: The Fancy-School Factor - James Fallows Oct 13
Krugman: Fear and Favor Oct 4

September

August

July

June

A Neuroscientist, Nature and Nurture, and America's Children in Financial Distress Jun 30
Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24
Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23
The Prayer of the Landless Jun 18
The Landlord's Prayer — Archer's version Jun 18
William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18
The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16
New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16
The oil and gas billionaire, and estate taxes Jun 14
What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14
Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5
Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5
An Inconvenient Tax Jun 5
What's the real cost of living, in Pennsylvania? Jun 4
The Republican Journal: The only fair tax Jun 2

May

Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls May 31
So how do we reduce our reliance on oil? May 31
The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30
Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30
Education and Democracy May 29
Which Georgist first called LVT the "least bad" tax? May 13

April

When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27
47 percent Apr 26
Looters in Loafers - Krugman Apr 24
Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24
Crosby: Democracy Apr 21
Crosby: The Land of the Noonday Night Apr 21
Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21
It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9
NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. Apr 9
Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9
Mine! All Mine! Apr 8
I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed? - NYTimes.com Apr 4
America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2
America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2
America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2

March

Elizabeth Warren: Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Fiery Advocate Mar 30
Tent City at a Golf Club Dramatizes Haiti’s Limbo Mar 30
For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do Mar 30
Monopoly History Mar 30
Moses Mar 30
Telling Secrets: Racism Redux Mar 28
NPR: Should gov't push owning a home? | Marketplace Mar 23
The running of the rich: Is wealth changing Connecticut politics? Mar 22
Boston Globe article on Little Neck, the Feoffees and the tenants Mar 21
Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20
Land in Manhattan Mar 19
Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19
Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17
Our Aging Infrastructure: Saving U.S. Water and Sewer Systems Would Be Costly Mar 15
Concentration of Income: NYC Mar 15
Authority open to renegotiating B.P.C. condo hikes Mar 14
A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13
Little Neck and the Feoffees: Valuing the Land Mar 12
How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11
Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9
Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9
That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9
Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum Mar 7
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7
The Feoffees and the Tenants: Condo pact may signal break in impasse over Little Neck cottages Mar 4
Airport Landing Rights as our COMMON treasure Mar 1

February

Proposition 13 and Parcel Taxes Feb 27
Debt in America Feb 26
Hedge Fund Moves on Stuyvesant Town Feb 24
Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23
The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22
The Rule of Property I and II, by Karen Coulter Feb 22
America's millionaires Feb 17
How should we-the-people pay for ... snow removal? Feb 15
Heidi's Bar and the Real Estate Bubble Feb 14
Looking Forward Feb 14
The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14
Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14
2009Q4 Labor Underutilization Problems of US Workers by 2008 Income Decile Feb 13
Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12
The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10
"I Am For Men" Feb 3
Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1

January

10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31
Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31
Remembering Howard Zinn Jan 31
Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31
Thinking Great Thoughts Jan 31
"The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31
The other Davos website Jan 30
The Great 18-year Real Estate Cycle Jan 30
Why I Bother Jan 26
Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26
The Feoffees, the Ipswich School Committee and the TENANTS of Little Neck Jan 23
Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22
Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits - NYTimes.com Jan 21
MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18
Middle Class Wealth Jan 18
Tolstoy: The Last Station Jan 17
Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16
The Henry George Conspiracy « Liberty Revival Jan 13
I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13
Wealth Concentration data Jan 11
Income Concentration Jan 11

2009

December

November

September

Wish I'd said that! Sep 15
Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4

August

July

June

May

April

People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29
Pirates threatening revenge ... Apr 13
Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12
How Do We Fix an Ailing Economy? Apr 12
Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10
Payroll Taxes Apr 8
About Land Value Taxation Apr 8
CBO data: Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates for 2005 and 2006 Apr 7

February

January

The definition of Chutzpah Jan 29
Relative Child Poverty, Income Inequality, Wealth, and Health Jan 28
Buy it Up — Break it Up — Fund it Right! Jan 26
Too Big to Fail: Another Price of Permitting Monopoly Jan 26
A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26
Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25
Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23
Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23
Susan Pace Hamill: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy Jan 22
NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21
Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18
The More Things Change ... 1887 and 2009 Jan 17
The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17
Some Factoids from the CBO on Infrastructure Investment Jan 17
Father of the ecosystem: Joseph Priestley Jan 17
Mark Twain: The War Prayer Jan 4
Reading passages / test 1 (45 adet soru) Jan 3
Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3
Eisenhower's roads to prosperity Jan 2
Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2

2008

December

Madoff Greatest Ponzi Scheme? Real Estate Magnitudes Greater — The Inspired Economist Dec 30
The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29
"Miles Per Gallon" is the wrong measuring stick! Dec 27
The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21
The Feoffees may sell Little Neck to the tenants ... for ever and ever Dec 18
Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11
A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7
Change.gov Dec 7
Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6
Bailing out the Private Equity crowd Dec 5
What free markets? Dec 3
Time to Tackle US Poverty? Dec 3

November

October

Spreading the Wealth Oct 30
When the rules are wrong, should we continue to play by them? Oct 28
Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28
I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28
Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise Oct 28
Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28
NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? Oct 28
Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28
Pew study: Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life Oct 28
Henry George was right ... Oct 15
We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15
Another benefit of civilization and government Oct 12
Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2
Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1

September

August

July

June

Be a good ancestor Jun 26
David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25
Orthodox Anglicans hint schism, stop short of split Jun 25
CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19
Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19
Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19
HG quote for today Jun 19
Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity Jun 18
Luke Russert's tribute to his father: a new political party? Jun 18
A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16
Pope Says Church Role In Politics "For Good Of All" Jun 16
Ross Perot, Back On the Charts Jun 16
The Landed Gentry Jun 16
HG Quote of the Day Jun 16
Why did Big Russ have to work two full-time jobs? Jun 15
McCain, Obama stake out divergent paths on taxes - Yahoo! News Jun 10
Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty Jun 10
The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10
Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8
The Elder Economic Security Standard, new sibling to the Self Sufficiency Standard Jun 8
Alaska Oil Revenues Tally High Jun 8
One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8

May

Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28
Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28
Taxes as the Price We Pay for a Civilized Society — But What Taxes? May 28
Is LVT the answer to all our problems? May 28
Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia - New York Times May 19
"Building a New World" Conference, May 18
The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15
Poverty, America's Children, and Our Future May 15
Are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution? May 10
Vallejo, California, Officials Vote for Bankruptcy May 10

April

Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28
A Few Inconvenient Truths about the Property Tax Apr 28
A Few Inconvenient Truths about the Property Tax Apr 28
Are Property Tax "Circuit Breakers" a 'Solution' to anything? Apr 28
Bill Batt: Property Tax Relief Measures: Answers to the "Poor Widow" Argument Apr 23
Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19
How much is your home worth? Apr 18
a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18
The Purpose of Government Apr 17
Abolish All 'Taxes' - NYT Apr 17
California's Proposition 13 and Parcel Taxes: Adding insult to injury for new property owners Apr 13
Alabama's taxes Apr 13
Contra Costa Times OpEd — End the property tax Apr 13
Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12
Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4
When Paying Property Tax is Inconvenient Apr 2
Blog Speed Apr 2
Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Apr 1
CT: Revitalizing older cities Apr 1
Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Apr 1
Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Apr 1
Fortunes Made in Real Estate Apr 1
Funding Infrastructure: A Dedicated Funding Stream Apr 1
Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1
The FairTax, and why it isn't fair or wise Apr 1
The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1
Working harder, making others richer Apr 1

March

February

Pluralistic Ignorance Feb 29
Redirecting Sprawl Feb 29
Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28
Americans and Golf, and the local assessor Feb 24
"An Open Field and a Fair Chance": Abraham Lincoln and Henry George Feb 23
Assessments that favor the big landholders Feb 23
Downtown Sprawl, Property Assessments and Getting the Incentives Right Feb 21
The College, the Beach, and the Cottagers Feb 21
The Feoffees, their tenants, and the Ipswich public schools Feb 20
How do we eliminate poverty? Feb 19
Poverty is Poison (Krugman, 2/18/08 NYT) Feb 19
Robert Reich's NYT column "Totally Spent" Feb 15
Wealthandwant.com Feb 14
Why "LVTFan"? Feb 14
Welcome! Feb 14