Seeing the Cat

Tag · 248 posts

Commons

• Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek May 21, 2020
• The Single Tax: An Essay on the Single Tax in 50 Words Mar 31, 2020
• Meum, Tuum and Stealum Mar 28, 2020
• The milk in our coconut Mar 28, 2020
• Natural resources and peace — Snowden Nov 11, 2015
• Giving Away the Commons ... Land Rent for Cottages on Forest Service Lands Sep 12, 2014
• U.S. Government Sells 400,000 Acres in Gulf Aug 23, 2014
• George Bernard Shaw: 1885 speech on private property and privilege Nov 3, 2013
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 22 — Hal Caine Jan 22, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 8 — Allen Jan 8, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 2 — Shakespeare Jan 2, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 1 — Hildebrand - Pope Gregory the Great Jan 1, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 30 — Dove Dec 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 24 — Sue Dec 24, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 21 — St. Ambrose and Dr. McGlynn Dec 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 20 — Blackstone Dec 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 18 — Voltaire Dec 18, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 28 — Morris and Ruskin Nov 28, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar — addendum: St. Ambrose and Pope Paul VI Nov 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 25 — Alfred Marshall Nov 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 29 — Seneca Oct 29, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 22 — Schreiner Oct 22, 2012
• That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 20 — Howells Oct 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 19 — Aristotle Oct 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 16 — Plutarch Oct 16, 2012
• Born Yesterday Oct 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 11 — William Seward Oct 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 7 — Archdeacon Paley Oct 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 6 — Pufendorf Oct 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 4 — Bagehot Oct 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 3 — Marmontel Oct 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 2 — Jefferies Oct 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 29 — Froude Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 13 — Winstanley Sep 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 12 — Grant Allen Sep 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 8 — Sir Thomas More Sep 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 6 — A. R. Wallace Sep 6, 2012
• One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 4 — Sir Thomas More Sep 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 2 — Gerrit Smith and Thomas Paine Sep 2, 2012
• Devyr: Thoughts addressed to every true and brave man (1882) Aug 26, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar — August 21 — Carlyle and Paine Aug 22, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 15 — Rousseau Aug 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 14 — De Laveleye Aug 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 14 — Abbe Lamennais Aug 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 13 — Emerson Aug 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 10 — Dickens Aug 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 4 — Adam Smith Aug 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 15 — Coleridge Jul 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 7 — John Stuart Mill Jul 7, 2012
• A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All - NYTimes.com Jul 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 3 - Simon Newcomb Jul 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 22 — Pufendorf Jun 22, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 11 - Old English Rhyme Jun 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 9 — John Stuart Mill Jun 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 23 — Tecumseh May 23, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 22 — Black Hawk May 22, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 21 — Emerson May 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 19 — Allen May 19, 2012
• No one generation of people has ... May 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 11 — Gibbon May 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 29 — Newman Apr 29, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 27 — Pufendorf Apr 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 24 — Mill and Paine Apr 24, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 20 — Gerald Massey Apr 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 10 — Goldsmith Apr 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 3 — Tolstoy Apr 3, 2012
• Goldsmith, a supplement to the "Earth for All" collection Apr 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 30 — Emperor Joseph II Mar 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 26 - Spinoza Mar 26, 2012
• The Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 21 — John Stuart Mill Mar 21, 2012
• Jefferson: The earth as a common stock for all Mar 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 12 - Cable, Wallace Mar 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 11 - Pope Gregory the Great Mar 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 9 — Spence Mar 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 8 - Emerson Mar 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 2 — Coleridge Mar 2, 2012
• The Land Questions: #30 — Public Lands Mar 1, 2012
• The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
• Brief Statement of Single Tax Philosophy Feb 26, 2012
• The Land Questions: #25: Is Transportation a Good Investment? Feb 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 25 — Isaac Barrow and Jerrard Winstanley Feb 25, 2012
• The Land Questions #18 — Gambling Feb 18, 2012
• The Land Questions: #5 — Water Feb 5, 2012
• Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 31 — Joaquin Miller Jan 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 25 — Sir Thomas More Jan 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 13 — Ogilvie and Emerson Jan 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 12 — Maine and Kant Jan 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 11: Justin Jan 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 10 — Virgil Jan 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 8 — Bishop Nulty of Meath, Giffen Jan 8, 2012
• In Arden Town (1914) Jan 4, 2012
• 0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
• Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
• Who benefits when America sells off our airwaves? Aug 2, 2011
• James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• Earned Income: Public and Private Aug 29, 2010
• The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
• Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? | Martin Wolf's Exchange Aug 17, 2010
• Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• The oil and gas billionaire, and estate taxes Jun 14, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• Boston Globe article on Little Neck, the Feoffees and the tenants Mar 21, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
• Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19, 2010
• A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13, 2010
• That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
• Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum Mar 7, 2010
• Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23, 2010
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• The Rule of Property I and II, by Karen Coulter Feb 22, 2010
• America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
• The Feoffees, the Ipswich School Committee and the TENANTS of Little Neck Jan 23, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
• Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
• So is the Woodstock Generation going to fix America's most serious problems? Aug 13, 2009
• William Jennings Bryan, on liberty and future generations Aug 5, 2009
• The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
• Opportunities, Privilege, Rent — and a better way to fund our common spending Jul 22, 2009
• Life on a Small Island Jun 11, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 2009
• Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
• Book Review — Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back May 11, 2009
• Yertle the Turtle, and Tax Reform May 11, 2009
• Update on the Little Neck (Ipswich, MA) sale by the Feoffees of Ipswich's Public Schools May 11, 2009
• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ... May 11, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
• How Should Connecticut Pay for Maintaining I-95, I-91, I-84 and the Parkways? May 9, 2009
• The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
• The Rich List May 5, 2009
• Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
• Neuroscience and social deprivation | I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told | The Economist May 5, 2009
• People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
• Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
• About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• The 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances: Are we going to complain, or are we going to create the conditions which will improve things? Feb 16, 2009
• Marketing the Goodness of God Feb 15, 2009
• How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
• Should Landlords Share in their Tenants' Profits? Should our Urban Landlords be Society's Big Winners? Feb 9, 2009
• Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
• How much land does a family need? What are the implications for our country? Feb 5, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• Who is entitled to the economic rent on Bolivia's trove of lithium? Feb 2, 2009
• Federal Gifts to Landlords Feb 2, 2009
• Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23, 2009
• Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 2009
• NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21, 2009
• Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Some Factoids from the CBO on Infrastructure Investment Jan 17, 2009
• Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3, 2009
• Eisenhower's roads to prosperity Jan 2, 2009
• The Feoffees may sell Little Neck to the tenants ... for ever and ever Dec 18, 2008
• Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11, 2008
• Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
• hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Nov 29, 2008
• Taxes and Tolls Sought in Plan to Save M.T.A. - NYTimes.com Nov 29, 2008
• Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
• Tom Friedman, NYT 11/26/08 - All Fall Down Nov 29, 2008
• Change Needed to End Boom-Bust Cycles Nov 27, 2008
• Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
• On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 2008
• How do we reduce the demand for energy? Nov 10, 2008
• High-Income Households ... some additional SCF data, relevant to Obama's SS tax options Nov 9, 2008
• A new film: "The End of Poverty?" Nov 7, 2008
• Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
• That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! Nov 1, 2008
• Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? Oct 28, 2008
• Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part I: how does the US compare to the rest of the world Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part II: Natural Resources and Ownership Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part III: Deciles of Wealth Distribution. Sep 28, 2008
• We all contribute to rent. Some of us get to live off it. How does this fit with the notion that we are created equal? Sep 24, 2008
• He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• That block in Manhattan ... Sep 17, 2008
• Being born into the Landed Gentry is like holding the winning lottery ticket Sep 6, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 2008
• A Gem from Luke North Sep 3, 2008
• Gold-based lease could cause million-dollar rent hike for Forest City Enterprises Sep 3, 2008
• Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 2008
• Downtown Nantucket: Who Should Get the Rent? Sep 2, 2008
• How do people who are created equal share resources equitably? Sep 1, 2008
• PBS's NOW, 8/1/08: Alaska: Governor Palin & Oil Resources — Who Do They Belong To? Sep 1, 2008
• Port Authority to Fight Federal Proposal to Auction Airport Landing Slots - NYT Aug 26, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 2008
• Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
• Renters deserve a better shake - Boston Globe Aug 14, 2008
• Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory: Saturday AM Coffee: A Plethora of Choices, for Some Jul 20, 2008
• Transfers of Wealth Overseas Jul 20, 2008
• Fannie & Freddie: Privatization of Gain, Socialization of Loss: Who Benefits? Jul 18, 2008
• Cindy McCain's San Diego condo (the oldest of their 3) Jul 16, 2008
• We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
• Update on the Feoffees' tenants in Ipswich, Massachusetts Jul 8, 2008
• Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
• Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 2008
• Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 2008
• Do you own an oil company? Jul 3, 2008
• Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 2008
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
• Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• Luke Russert's tribute to his father: a new political party? Jun 18, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008
• The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1, 2008
• Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 31, 2008
• Redirecting Sprawl Mar 30, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Mar 30, 2008
• Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008