Renegade Economists Show 506 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes Bitcoin is booming and the blockchain technology behind it is being used in innovative ways. David Martin is the Managing Director of Power Ledger, a Perth-based startup using the technology to link surplus solar production with tenants wanting renewable … Read More
Resource War Incentives
Renegade Economists Show 434 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 5.30 – 6pm Wednesdays. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast. Show Notes Phillip Anderson, the author of The Secret Life of Real Estate & Banking, discusses the core aspects to understanding an economic system that supports war. The battle for location is everywhere but in economic theory. This is one … Read More
Hartzok: Socialising land rent and untaxing production
Renegade Economists 286 Alanna Hartzok on Equalizing Labor Rights via Earth Rights by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud This week we speak with Alanna Hartzok, co-director of the Earth Rights Institute, looking at her experiences at the World Bank Land & Poverty conference. We discuss the paper she presented on Socialising Land Rents, Untaxing Production , exploring the deep history of … Read More
Review: The Secret Life of Real Estate
Review by Mason Gaffney, May 2009 available from our bookshop – $50 hardback This is an exciting, important and timely work; it will sell well. Anderson has ferreted out and marshaled dozens of sources on the 18-year cycle of boom and bust in real estate, its history, its mechanics, and its dynamics. Some sources are old and neglected; some are … Read More
Bailing out the Bubble’s Enablers
photo credit: laurenatclemson Michael Hudson July 14, 2008 I am writing this article about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while sitting in the Queens Botanical Garden. This was not my plan today. The central air conditioning in my apartment broke down six weeks ago, and still has not been fixed. (It’s a nice condominium building, but accidents happen.) It is … Read More