Seeing the Cat

Tag · 286 posts

Landed Gentry

• Squirrel Island Aug 21, 2020
• Poem: Mary and Her Landlord May 7, 2020
• 1884-11-19 Henry George on what St. Paul might think of contemporary society Dec 8, 2013
• George Bernard Shaw: 1885 speech on private property and privilege Nov 3, 2013
• Working, Begging or Stealing; Workers, Beggars or Thieves — and putting one's family first Sep 29, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 25 — Ruskin Jan 25, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 17 — Cobden Jan 17, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 15 — Allen Jan 15, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 12 — Cushman Jan 12, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 10 — O'Reilly Jan 10, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part I (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part II (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• That 5,000 acre estate in Great Britain: Highclere Jan 7, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 7 — Renan Jan 7, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 16 — Grant Allen Dec 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 10 — Spencer Dec 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 9 — Murray and Arnold Dec 9, 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 20 — Isaiah Nov 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 18 — Ebenezer Jones Nov 18, 2012
• Corn Belt Farmland: The Newest Real Estate Bubble? : NPR Nov 13, 2012
• Harpers: Monopoly is Theft Oct 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 23 — Froude and Spencer Oct 24, 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: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 26 — Lowell Sep 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 16 — Marmontel and Scott Sep 16, 2012
• The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 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 10 — Arnold Sep 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 8 — Sir Thomas More Sep 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 7 — Swift Sep 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 30 — Pliny Aug 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 14 — Abbe Lamennais Aug 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 31 - John Stuart Mill Jul 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 30 — Wallace Jul 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 26 — Walker Jul 26, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 24 — Burke Jul 24, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 13 — Tolstoy Jul 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 12 — Sanscrit Deed and Carlyle Jul 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 23 — Robert Bird Jun 23, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 21 — Ernest Jones Jun 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 20 — Buckle Jun 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 19 — John Stuart Mill Jun 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 16 — William Morris Jun 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 13 — Paine and Marmontel Jun 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 12 — Goldsmith Jun 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 9 — John Stuart Mill Jun 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 2 — Schopenauer May 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 30 — Henry George Apr 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23, 2012
• Sagacity Apr 18, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 14 — George Eliot Apr 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 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
• Henry Ware Allen: Special Privilege Mar 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 11 - Pope Gregory the Great Mar 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 10 - Thoreau Mar 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 9 — Spence Mar 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 8 - Emerson Mar 8, 2012
• The Land Questions: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6, 2012
• Another motto: Save the Rent for Society Feb 26, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 26 — Sismondi and Ruskin Feb 26, 2012
• The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values Feb 22, 2012
• The Land Questions: #21 — Paying for Transportation Infrastructure Feb 21, 2012
• Downton Abbey: The Landed Gentry Feb 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 20 - Herbert Spencer Feb 20, 2012
• The Land Questions #19 — Beaches Feb 19, 2012
• A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 15 — Plutarch Feb 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 14 — W. D. Howells Feb 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 30 — Sir Thomas More Jan 30, 2012
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• The Owners of the United States Oct 6, 2011
• Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2, 2011
• Justice, Order — what do we value? Feb 25, 2011
• Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 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
• What Tolstoy Taught: The Great Iniquity Nov 28, 2010
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
• James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
• Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
• Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
• Ben Stein's Money Sep 23, 2010
• FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• Who is entitled to Ground Rent? The Vicar's Wife, or someone(s) else? Aug 28, 2010
• Some random thoughts on Monopoly and Life Aug 21, 2010
• Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? | Martin Wolf's Exchange Aug 17, 2010
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Income Concentration: Piketty & Saez data through 2007 Jul 18, 2010
• Wealth concentration in China exceeds US Jul 7, 2010
• Aging in Place Jul 1, 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 Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 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
• Mine! All Mine! Apr 8, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do Mar 30, 2010
• Monopoly History Mar 30, 2010
• Moses Mar 30, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14, 2010
• Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12, 2010
• The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• 10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
• Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31, 2010
• Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
• The Feoffees, the Ipswich School Committee and the TENANTS of Little Neck Jan 23, 2010
• Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
• Neoclassical economists are rich people's useful idiots. Dec 31, 2009
• First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
• 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
• The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
• "END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
• Life on a Small Island Jun 11, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pirates threatening revenge ... Apr 13, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• A Price for Existence 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
• All those billions and trillions ... how do they relate to household wealth and household income? Feb 6, 2009
• Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
• Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" 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
• A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 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
• 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
• 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
• Madoff Greatest Ponzi Scheme? Real Estate Magnitudes Greater — The Inspired Economist Dec 30, 2008
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
• The Feoffees may sell Little Neck to the tenants ... for ever and ever Dec 18, 2008
• A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7, 2008
• Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
• Taxes and Tolls Sought in Plan to Save M.T.A. - NYTimes.com 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
• Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
• Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one 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
• 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
• 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
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• Democratic Capitalism ... Sep 24, 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
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 2008
• The Big (and unnoticed) Winners in the Mortgage Crisis Sep 20, 2008
• Finishing the Bridge Construction Ahead of Schedule ... 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
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? Aug 26, 2008
• Renters deserve a better shake - Boston Globe Aug 14, 2008
• Advances in Local Emergency Services: How Should We Pay for Them? Aug 2, 2008
• new Lincoln Institute Study — Property Tax Assessment Limits: Lessons from 30 Years of Experience Jul 22, 2008
• Low Rent, East Side Location - See Landlord, if You’re Famous Jul 22, 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
• 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
• Update on the Feoffees' tenants in Ipswich, Massachusetts Jul 8, 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
• 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
• 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
• CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008
• The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty Jun 10, 2008
• The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10, 2008
• Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
• Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
• Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28, 2008
• The Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard, 2008 Mar 26, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
• The 80/20 Rule — and its misapplications Mar 19, 2008
• ConservativeHome's Platform: Mark Wadsworth: Time to look at Land Value Tax? Mar 19, 2008
• Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
• Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
• True Irish — and all of us Mar 14, 2008
• Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008
• Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
• Affordable Family Formation and Values Voters: Social Values, or Land Values? Mar 4, 2008
• Who Should Get the Land Rent? 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
• Assessments that favor the big landholders Feb 23, 2008