Jeffery J. Smith, President, Forum on Geonomics
[A paper submitted to the BSA of the AIA, 2003]

Around the world, a few dozen cities collect ground rents - some of the money that people spend or are willing to spend on a location - rather than tax buildings and other economic goods. …

We will never make poverty history until we rip up the tax system

Mark Braund, Saturday December 3, 2005 The Guardian

Despite the prime minister’s resolve, the year in which Britain was to lead the world in making poverty history has achieved little. This month there is one last opportunity as the …

by Karl Williams

Countless indigenous peoples and social philosophers throughout history have reiterated the ageless wisdom that it’s plain wrong to own land. Land is the gift of nature, and should be the equal and common birthright of all humanity, yet we find that it’s bought, sold, and monopolised like a …

What’s the worth of the beauty of a tree, in hard dollar figures? What about its climate-stabilising value, the value of its biodiversity, and every other intangible value we’d like to defend?

By Crikey, this is no mere academic exercise, for the Common Wealth is currently being trashed precisely because these …

IR Reform: Unmentionable Barriers to Job Creation

The Howard government’s industrial relations agenda is supposedly about job-creation, as if the cost of labour — including wages and salaries, penalty rates and other perks, and the difficulty of reversing bad hiring decisions — were the last remaining barrier to full employment.

Sorry that …