Peak Monopoly

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Renegade Economists Show 432

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Karl presents at the Sustainable Living Festival on the diversion powers of so-called resource shortages. Why was Malthus the perfect remedy for the French Revolution?

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Copyright critique from the commons

Laurence Lessig
POWer Plants
Savills – Around the World in Dollars and Cents (Foreign investment up 334% in 6 years)

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In Pursuit of the Mining Millions

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Renegade Economists Show 431

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Kevin Morrison (UTS) discusses best practices in consensus building when it comes to resource rent taxation. We then debate the mechanism to share these mining millions.

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Sign our Negative Gearing petition. Speculators are playing with the lives of millions who simply want a home.
BHP slashes dividend
Henry Tax Review on Resource Rent Taxes, the Brown Tax
7 deals in 7 years for 7 billion for Trevor Rees-Jones
The Total Resource Rents of Australia

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Negative Gearing for Marginal Seats

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Renegade Economists Show 430

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Australia’s leading economist Saul Eslake gives a masterclass in current Negative Gearing reform options. The top 20% own 72% of the value of investment property. But yet the reforms will target ….? Interesting political machinations as put forward by Saul. The transcript will be on our sister site Prosper soon.

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Saul Eslake’s presentation to the 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner – 50 Years of Housing Policy Failure
The top 20% own 72% of the value of investment property – found via ABS Survey of Income and Wealth Distribution
HILDA survey

Come watch The Big Short with us next Monday. Tickets only $10.

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Policy Learnings and Yearnings

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Renegade Economists Show 429

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Warwick Smith (Per Capita) analyses the learnings from the last Australian recession (1990 – 91) in light of recent cabinet documents released from that period. The post-GFC policy learnings are then analysed. Sorry about the slow podcast this week, I was busy with a government submission and the SLF festival.
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Warwick Smith – articles from the Conversation
– on Medicare
Warwick can also be heard on this week’s Rear Vision (ABC) on Tax and Tax Reform in Australia.
Privatisation
Beyond Peak Oil to Peak Monopoly

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The City as a Commons

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Renegade Economists Show 428

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Dr Jose Ramos joins to discuss the fast moving commons culture that is evolving through systems thinking, peer-to-peer and the sharing economy. We focus on the City as a Commons line of thinking before Karl gives a precis of the top peer-to-peer trends of the moment according to Michel Bauwens.

The City As Commons by Renegade Economists on Mixcloud

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Dr Ramos’s callout for papers on the City as a Commons
Michel Bauwens on the Top Peer-to-Peer trends of 2015
Janelle Orsi on the Renegade Economists, discussing Platform Cooperatives
Karl on Collaborative California
The World Has Discovered a $1 Trillion Ocean

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