Both critics and fans of markets overlook what Adam Smith and others said about land.

If you know anything about finance, you understand why land value taxation is an optimal hedge, even for real estate owners.

Progressives alone won't win. It'll take an alliance with their erstwhile opponents, the libertarians, to win the most basic of all reforms—an income apart from our labor.

Excessive traffic fines create distrust between the police and the people. What’s needed is tax reform that eliminates the financial incentive for taxation by citation.

Opposition to land-value taxation is based on the transition, not on the long run.

The knee-jerk ideas won't suffice. Big problems need big solutions—powerful, big-picture solutions. Like geonomics.

Attempts to educate the public have not been sufficient to achieve reform.

Capital Flight is not the problem it seems, if the right taxes are used.

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.

The economic problems of Greece are common to all countries and, if not addressed, will lead to global ruin.

With radical changes, Greece could rise like a phoenix from its economic mess. Here’s what could quickly make Greece the most prosperous economy on earth.

The Pope's encyclical is influential, so a clearer policy statement would be important.

The debate on shifting away from taxing earned income and towards unearned wealth is worth having. It is bold and potentially one of the most transformative.

There’s enough for everyone. We just have to look in the right places.

A parody of Portrait of an Artist by Joyce, what influenced me in economics

There is fear that robots will replace labor.

Any tax on earned income harms the economy and violates one’s right to own one’s labor.

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