by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 21, 2021 | georgism
Land value taxation is impeded by the same national sentiment that has reacted so strongly to the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. That decision has sparked an intense national debate over the private property versus land use regulation and, ultimately, over the ability...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 20, 2021 | georgism
from John Ikerd, July 2008 In 1879, Henry George, a journalist and philosopher, proposed to abolish all taxation save that upon land values in his classic book, Progress and Poverty. He suggested that people were not poor because of any lack of productivity of either...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 17, 2021 | anarchism, authority, liberty, tucker
Probably no agitation has ever attained the magnitude, either in the number of its recruits or the area of its influence, which has been attained by Modern Socialism, and at the same time been so little understood and so misunderstood, not only by the hostile and the...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 9, 2021 | naturalism, neo-luddism
Chellis Glendinning Most students of European history dismiss the Luddites of 19th century England as “reckless machine-smashers” and “vandals” worthy of mention only for their daring tactics. Probing beyond this interpretation, though, we find a complex, thoughtful,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Feb 22, 2020 | rothbard
All right: Even if we concede that full private property in resources and the free market will conserve and create resources, and do it far better than government regulation, what of the problem of pollution? Wouldn’t we be suffering aggravated pollution from...
