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Purpose.         This note was initially prepared for the UK Liberal Democrat Party’s  Tax Commission. The author had heard that Sweden incorporates an element of property taxation within its income… Read more »

Like most 30 somethings with a substantial HECS debt and an addiction to avocado on toast, I am an aspiring first home buyer. I’d love to buy the home I… Read more »

Public Revenue Without Taxation. Introduction It is now widely recognised that the free market system provides a self-organising process that enables a more efficient allocation of a society’s resources than… Read more »

The Cat and Dick Twittingham Once upon  a time there  was a cat and his master,  Richard Twittingham. Dick  was determined  to make his fortune in London and planned to set… Read more »

Mason Gaffney has written a new book “Nature, Economy and Equity — Sacred Water, Profane Markets”, published in November 2016 issue of the  American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Ed… Read more »

With 2.791.8101 Square Kilometres of surface Argentina is one of the largest countries in the world and with 36.223.9472 inhabitants one of the comparatively less populated. The actual ratio of… Read more »

The following sad story appeared in the Daily Mail of 21 May 2001: “When offered contract work, my firm went through the costings, cashflow and forecasting exercise. We judged  there… Read more »

[An address delivered at the Henry George Club, Sydney NSW; 16 May, 1932] Although the sciences, generally, are rightly regarded as nature studies, there is an unfortunate tendency to consider… Read more »

It would be foolish to describe the current situation in the UK housing market as a “crisis,” as  this suggests some unforeseen events which suddenly come to a head and… Read more »