Renegade Economists Show 433 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Karl interviewed on the Beyond Zero Emissions Science and Solutions show about his role, the Total Resource Rents of Australia & the need for land value capture to finance infrastructure. Related Links About Prosper Australia Total Resource Rents … Read More
In Pursuit of the Mining Millions
Renegade Economists Show 431 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. 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. Related Links Sign our Negative Gearing petition. Speculators are playing with the … Read More
Bollier on Monopoly Profits to Finance Government
As the Federal Government leads the deficit scaremongering on the road to lining up the firesale of our public assets to insiders (whilst slugging the consumer with a higher and thus regressive GST), we are reminded of the approach they could be taking if genuinely interested in a productive market. Leading Commons advocate David Bollier writes in Why Not Tax … Read More
Harnessing Monopoly for the Common Good
The Total Resource Rents of Australia – Report Release Tuesday November 20th, 6:30pm Presenter: Karl Fitzgerald Venue: 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Could the economic value of all forms of monopoly be capable of financing the three tiers of government? This report will demonstrate how the economic power of monopoly is capable of just this. Quantifying the naturally rising value of … Read More