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
Nature and the Common Good By Joseph Milne Modern economic thinking generally takes for granted an unavoidable conflict between the common good and the individual good, as though the two ends were somehow incompatible. Thus the interest of the employee is seen as in conflict with the
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
Letter from the Editor on the COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has led many ordinary people to reconsider ideas of society we have long taken for granted. While the lockdown and social isolation has limited our usual interaction, it has brought about a sharp increase in
Economics and the Land Ethic By Joseph Milne HGF Open Day Talk September 2019 Let me begin with a quotation from Aldo Leopold: There is as yet no ethic dealing with man’s relation to the land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land…is still property.
The Green New Deal, Georgism & “The Truth of Socialism” By Simon McKenna The only way to protect ourselves from the ecological crisis is to make significant changes to the way we currently live. The Green New Deal is a viable plan to make these changes. New energy
Henry George, Economic Justice and the Environment By David Cadman and Scherto Gill For how could there be greed where all had enough? How could the vice, the crime, the ignorance, the brutality, that spring from poverty and the fear of poverty, exist where poverty had vanished?
Private Property, Economic Freedom, and the Socialization of Rent By Gavin Kerr The idea of land value taxation (LVT) featured more prominently in the UK General Election of 2017 than perhaps in any UK election since the General Election of 1911, when Lloyd George’s Liberal Party won
