A Fresh Vision for Georgism Brian Chance In Progress and Poverty, Henry George explained the fundamental truth that a relatively higher value of land at some locations was created by the presence and work of the whole community and that to appropriate it for the private use
Ownership in Early Christianity and the Natural Law Tradition Joseph Milne Charles Avila’s book Ownership: Early Christian Teaching shows us that the Church Fathers addressed the question of land ownership and its exploitation very strongly. For example Avila quotes from Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, in the
Jonjo Brady Consider the simple act of walking your dogs over a patch of fields. Have you ever considered who owns those fields or whether you even have the right to walk across them, what manner of law and justification enacts this right; a public right
The Physiocracy of Henry George By L. S. Anderson In chapter 4 of book VIII of Progress and Poverty (1879), Henry George singled out the school of Physiocracy for particular praise. In their doctrine of the single tax (l’impôt unique) he saw nothing less than an anticipation
Andrew Purves The Planning System in the United Kingdom continues to be a political football, as it tries to fulfil a number of competing and conflicting objectives. Given that Planning is now a devolved power, I will focus primarily on Planning in England, although the tensions
A suggestion often put forward is that the rent collected as land tax should be shared as a basic income for all citizens. Tax for government obligations will still need to be put on production and on wages, with all the distortions that brings. Such
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing By Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane Published by New Economics Foundation (2017) ISBN 978-1-78699-118-8 Reviewed by Simon McKenna This accessible book from the New Economics Foundation offers valuable new insights into the UK housing crisis. Land tax advocates will find the sections
Folk-Memory and Land: The Diggers and the Anglo-Saxon Land Tradition By Edward Barnett The law condemns the man or woman who steals the goose off the common but lets the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose I first became interested in the question of land in my
Public Revenue Without Taxation By Peter Bowman THE IDEA The market mechanism provides the most efficient way of allocating the resources of an economy. Yet public services, which can count for around half of economic activity, are charged for indirectly through taxes which have no direct connection to
