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Jeffery J. Smith

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JEFFERY J. SMITH published The Geonomist, which won a California GreenLight Award, has appeared in both the popular press (e.g.,TruthOut) and academic journals (e.g., USC's “Planning and Markets”), been interviewed on radio and TV, lobbied officials, testified before the Russian Duma, conducted research (e.g., for Portland's mass transit agency), and recruited activists and academics to Progress.org. A member of the International Society for Ecological Economics and of Mensa, he lives in Mexico. Jeffery formerly was Chief Editor at Progress.org.

Business vs. Progress

Do we have access to the latest and greatest goods and services? Or do unseen powers delay delivery?

Money, a Symbol, vs Rent, a Real Surplus

Pumping out dollars, because they don't see social surplus, cheapens money and strengthens elites.

Make Covid Not Stand a Chance

The more prosperous your society, the more safe from covid you and yours are.

Linguistic Police

Word meaning impacts people, so why not care about the meaning of basic economic terms?

An Aged Idea Lacks Wise Elders

Wasted hundreds of millions could be funding a shift of the prevailing paradigm regarding sharing social surplus.

Tax the Rich? Hire the Poor? Or?

If progressives have enough power to win what won't work, spend that precious power to win what will work.

Wired Magazine Lionized Tom Paine

Tom Paine, precursor of bloggers, knew how to solve persistent problems.

What Troubles Disappear If We Share Rents?

Much of what torments us we can alleviate when we share Earth by sharing her worth.

Modern Monetary Therapy

When little and not knowing Pig Latin, you always wanted to understand what others kids were saying. Here's what MMTists are saying.

Mexico Will Prosper: a Post-Present History

The more comfortable and content your neighbors, the more comfortable and content you can be, too.

Reward Results, Not Insiders, To Finally Win

A great idea that society needs should be popular. Why isn't it? How can it become so?

Does Taxing Land Damage Land?

Revenue reform needs allies and the likeliest allies of public recovery of ground rent are defenders of the environment.

Land In Thomas Paine’s Lifetime

History can not be understood when the role of land is not told. Include land and history makes sense.

What Is Geonomics And Why Is It Good To Know?

There's an alternative to economics, as there is to astrology and alchemy. Not just a discipline, it's a real science, with answers.

Covid Experts: Credibility Vs Humility

Improve the discourse re pandemics from top down to peer review; i.e., every question merits an answer.

New Book: The Quest to Know Earth’s Worth

Fill in the blindspot re social surplus, its role in economies and politics; you'll never see mortgages the same way again.

German State to Recover Society's Land Value

The bigger the benefit, the bigger the battle to win it, yet a German state did take the first step toward an economy for all.

Enough Epidemiology Already

Beating covid is not just what we're told to do or what Big Pharma can do but also what a responsible government must do.

Trust About Covid Who Lied About WMD?

Government has cried wolf before. This time is there really a wolf, come to destroy us?

Guardian Columnist George Monbiot: Land Acts

Tell people that a Guardian columnist whose videos get tens of millions viewers clearly explains geoism in this video.

Getting Results Being Upbeat

Constant, unrelieved criticism debilitates supporters and rallies contraries. Overlooked are ideas that appeal across the political spectrum.

On Nov 3: Ranking Candidates Elects The Best

The polar icecap of politics is breaking up. Both voters and legislators are reforming the electoral process. Then the citizenry’s best values and highest goals can win.

Hamilton, the Mythical Musical

Two worlds house us, one real, the other what we believe. Some few shape both worlds. The rest of trust them or our senses.

Oil Beneath $0, Exxon Dropped From the Dow

Less Wealthy Oil Companies Signals Breathing Room For the Environment, Yet Can Rentiers Replace Oil Rent With Other Rents?

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