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Economic Justice

• Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
• 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
• The Henry George Idea in One Hundred Words Feb 14, 2016
• The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27, 2013
• Louis F. Post on Laissez faire (1909) Jan 24, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 8 — Allen Jan 8, 2013
• Who Benefits by Single Tax? Dec 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 20 — Isaiah Nov 20, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Our Daughters and Sons, and Opportunity Oct 24, 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 Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
• One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• A Right-to-Life Platform — 125 years old Aug 22, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 9 — John Stuart Mill Jun 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 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
• Bob Andelson: The Earth is the Lord's! Mar 19, 2012
• The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• Brief Statement of Single Tax Philosophy Feb 26, 2012
• Mother Earth, Boom-Bust, Free Trade, Dogs-in-the-Manger (landlordism), and widely-spread Prosperity Feb 23, 2012
• Wasserman: The Ethics of Land-Value Taxation Jan 29, 2012
• Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
• Today's economic problems aren't new Jan 8, 2012
• The Superficial Reformer Dec 4, 2011
• Charity or Justice: How We Treat the Poor Dec 3, 2011
• Lincoln inspired Sun Yat-sen's political philosophy: president - CNA ENGLISH NEWS Jul 4, 2011
• Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
• Justice, Order — what do we value? Feb 25, 2011
• Play "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit," a UK version of "The Landlords Game" (Monopoly) Jan 23, 2011
• Lizzie Magie's 1902 commentary on The Landlords' Game, on which Monopoly is based Jan 22, 2011
• 1915 Commission's report and 2011's scenario Jan 8, 2011
• Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6, 2011
• Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6, 2011
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
• Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
• Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
• Most Americans Wish U.S. was Like Sweden Sep 25, 2010
• Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 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
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24, 2010
• Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23, 2010
• The Prayer of the Landless Jun 18, 2010
• The Landlord's Prayer — Archer's version Jun 18, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30, 2010
• When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• Moses Mar 30, 2010
• A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
• Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 2010
• Remembering Howard Zinn Jan 31, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
• Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
• Neoclassical economists are rich people's useful idiots. Dec 31, 2009
• Children in Poverty, Children in low-income families Dec 26, 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
• "END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
• High and Low Finance - 2005 Tax Break for Repatriated Funds Didn’t Work as Billed Jun 5, 2009
• Getting By in Oregon: How Much Does It Take? Jun 3, 2009
• What You Get for... $465,000 - NYTimes.com Jun 3, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs 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
• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ... May 11, 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
• People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 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
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• Equal Rights Feb 14, 2009
• The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 2009
• How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
• All those billions and trillions ... how do they relate to household wealth and household income? Feb 6, 2009
• Statistics of Income: Mortgage Interest and Real Estate Taxes Feb 5, 2009
• Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25, 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
• Susan Pace Hamill: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy Jan 22, 2009
• Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
• The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21, 2008
• 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
• Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 2008
• hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Nov 29, 2008
• Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
• Dying of Consumption - NYT 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
• 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
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
• Ben Franklin, technological progress and moral progress Nov 7, 2008
• A new film: "The End of Poverty?" Nov 7, 2008
• Wealth Concentration and the Corruption of Government Nov 4, 2008
• Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the "wealth" — this time, let's talk about income Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth Oct 30, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
• Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 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
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• Those Shareholders who are being wiped out ... who are they? - or, "How's it trickling?" Sep 26, 2008
• Democratic Capitalism ... Sep 24, 2008
• He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• LA Times: Can California survive 'no new taxes'? Sep 17, 2008
• Auctioning leases on our common assets: far better than giving away the asset or auctioning it once and for all Sep 4, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 2008
• A Gem from Luke North Sep 3, 2008
• Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 2008
• What does an infant cost a young family? Sep 2, 2008
• How do people who are created equal share resources equitably? Sep 1, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 2008
• Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? Aug 26, 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
• Mandela's B-Day message: Rich should help poor Jul 18, 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
• WealthandWant.com: The Wealth Concentration Tables Jul 16, 2008
• We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
• The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
• Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
• Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 2008
• Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 2008
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• Orthodox Anglicans hint schism, stop short of split Jun 25, 2008
• Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity Jun 18, 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 Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• Why did Big Russ have to work two full-time jobs? Jun 15, 2008
• McCain, Obama stake out divergent paths on taxes - Yahoo! News Jun 10, 2008
• Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty Jun 10, 2008
• Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
• One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8, 2008
• Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
• Poverty, America's Children, and Our Future May 15, 2008
• Vallejo, California, Officials Vote for Bankruptcy May 10, 2008
• Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28, 2008
• Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19, 2008
• How much is your home worth? Apr 18, 2008
• a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18, 2008
• The Purpose of Government Apr 17, 2008
• Alabama's taxes Apr 13, 2008
• Contra Costa Times OpEd — End the property tax Apr 13, 2008
• Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12, 2008
• Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
• Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Apr 1, 2008
• CT: Revitalizing older cities Apr 1, 2008
• Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Apr 1, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Apr 1, 2008
• Funding Infrastructure: A Dedicated Funding Stream Apr 1, 2008
• Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1, 2008
• The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1, 2008
• Working harder, making others richer Apr 1, 2008
• Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break - New York Times Mar 30, 2008
• Getting Poverty Wrong, by Steven Malanga, City Journal 3/21/08 Mar 30, 2008
• Americans and Golf, and the local assessor Mar 30, 2008
• Assessments that favor the big landholders Mar 30, 2008
• Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 30, 2008
• Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 30, 2008
• Redirecting Sprawl Mar 30, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Mar 30, 2008
• Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Mar 28, 2008
• Philadelphia, its Wage Tax and its Residents Mar 27, 2008
• The Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard, 2008 Mar 26, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
• The FairTax, and why it isn't fair or wise Mar 23, 2008
• Did someone yell "FIRE" sector? Bailouts for whose benefit?? Mar 19, 2008
• The 80/20 Rule — and its misapplications Mar 19, 2008
• Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
• The Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
• Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Mar 15, 2008
• Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
• True Irish — and all of us Mar 14, 2008
• Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
• Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008
• Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
• Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 7, 2008
• Affordable Family Formation and Values Voters: Social Values, or Land Values? Mar 4, 2008
• Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 4, 2008
• 1 in 100 behind bars ... in America! Mar 2, 2008
• Ricardo's Law: The Great Tax Clawback Scam Mar 1, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008
• Americans and Golf, and the local assessor Feb 24, 2008
• "An Open Field and a Fair Chance": Abraham Lincoln and Henry George Feb 23, 2008
• Assessments that favor the big landholders Feb 23, 2008