Land, Capital and Change

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Renegade Economists Show 379

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Frank de Jong discusses the implications of confusing land and capital amidst the economic pressures of an ageing workforce under fire from climate change. Support 3CRs subscriber drive in February.

Land, Labour and Change by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

 

Related Links
Last week’s show with Yannis Tsiligakis
Frank’s 2007 Aussie Tour (with multimedia links)
Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything – cartoon by our friend Sam Wallman
Mason Gaffney’s Land the Distinctive Factor
– quoted via my 2013 Total Resource Rents of Australia report (p11).
Where is Yukon?

Watch out for  The Climate Fund Under Our Feet event Feb 26th.

Greek Elections: Rentiers Happy

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Renegade Economists Show 378

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.

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Show Notes

NY academic Yannis Tziligakis delivers a scathing inside analysis of the newly elected Syriza party in Greece and the economist MPs behind it (including poster boy Yanis Varoufakis) – on the inability to differentiate between land and capital.

 

Useful Idiots of Rentiers by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

 

Related Links

The transcript to our last excellent show with Yannis- Greek Debt Tan (it has to be good to be translated)

Syriza Enfia populist critique
Goldman Sachs Greece
Matt Tiabbi, Thomas Hartmann on Greek, Goldman complexity
Monopoly Powers in Greece

On the difference between land and capital:
The condition of Labour, Capital and Land
The Corruption of Economics

In summary: Many of the neo-liberal policies will continue with the land bubble set to escalate unabated. Thus the same inter-generational pressures will persist, budgetary pressures to boot.

 

Sharing Platform Rents

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Renegade Economists Show 377

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Janelle Orsi (www.theselc.org) discusses the role her important NGO plays in developing the legal tools for the evolving sharing economy, from cooperatives to urban agriculture. We also discuss the need for the sharing of the platform rents entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) have enjoyed. This builds on past shows trying to brainstorm a suitable economic formula for sharing the rents between participants and the producers of such platforms.

Sharing Platform Rents by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

Related Links

Seed Saving campaign
Van Badham on Fleurieu Poultry Co-Op
Mondragon’s Caja Laboral & Lehman’s Investment
Mondragon’s Fagor tests World’s Biggest Coop
Earthworker Coop Victoria & Heinz reference
Diaspora – the open source alternative to Facebook
Critiques of platform rents, the ‘sharing economy’

Past shows discussing the topic of Platform Rents:

Collaborative California – a presentation on the peer to peer revolution. by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

The Second Tech Phase: pt2 on Collaborative California, on the need for a fairer internet by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

All Property is Theft – Clarification

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Property Rights for All! by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

Renegade Economists Show 376

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
PhD candidate Cameron Murray joins for a lively discussion on the links between corruption and property rights in Queensland, venturing into ICAC and onto the global property bubble

All Property is Theft? A clarification – it is the unearned income, the economic rent that is the real theft. Property rights are essential for security of tenure but it is the loss of this community created value, the rents the community must address.

Related Links
Rumplestatskin on Macrobusiness
ICAC exhibits (examples of rent seeking)
Corruption, Game Theory and Rational Irrationality
Ronald Coase, Property Rights and Bottling the Air

Earth Rights Protest Music

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Protest Music 2014 by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

Renegade Economists Show 373 – 374

As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays.
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Show Notes
Over the summer break I lash out with some music that inspires, sometimes with samples overlaid. Yes my frustrations on the state of the world are well portrayed. Hopefully it helps someone commuting, doing dishes or cleaning out the shed!

Playlist for the above:
Songs of Protest with:
Grace Petrie – Maggie Thatcher’s Dream,
Michael Hurley – Bad Monsanto
Jamie DeWolf and the Snap Judgements – The Man and the God

David Rovics – Landlord

Christian Williams – Empire
Cantnakerous Monk – This Changes Everything
Bonnie Dobson – Birds of Space

Renegade Economists Show 374

Economic collage of sounds n thoughts by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud

Playlist
Non Bossy Possee – Dick Loggerhead
Net Neutrality Song – Dont Flush Our Rights Away. Write to the FCC! to keep the internet fair.
DJ Spooky – Napster

Non Bossy Possee – Plan it!
Gary Clail – Its Crazy
The Fat – Ghetto 70
VSauce – How Valuable is the Earth?

Fun-Da-Mental – Parasites
Scott Cook – The Landlord Giveth & the Landlord Taketh Away