Are the City of Vancouver’s financial troubles due to COVID-19 solvable? Yes they are, and here’s how.

A New Model of the Economy presents a rational and clear theory of economic prosperity. I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to gain an in-depth understanding of economics.

Contrary to popular thought, the surplus of production is not wages or profits, but land rent.

If we seek to estimate the total amount of rent that could be collected for public revenue, we need to include both the potential and the kinetic rent.

There are some economists who put Ricardo’s Law to good use. Yet that bedrock of economic analysis is almost 200 years old. It’s due for a checkup and an overhaul.

Those who complain about trickle-down and seek to tax the rich fail to distinguish between wealth from labor and entrepreneurship, and wealth from rising land rent and land values.

By redistribution, do you still mean the usual “from haves to have nots”? Or can you see predistribution by now?

More than an intellectual curiosity, the flow of value from desired locations is an untapped resource, able to alter our lives for the radically better.

Transition Towns can more easily fulfill their mission of building resilient communities by understanding specific economic principles.

The failure to distinguish land from capital prevents most economists from “diagnosing problems, forecasting important trends, and prescribing solutions.”​

So, if you are running the parking business, triple stacking will initially earn you more. But you'll spend your entire working life worried about the rent.