September 2 -- Henry George's Birthday
How's your energy level? The latest coverage will make you eager to
activate -- and your cohorts have lots for you to do! Incidentally, if
any reader knows of anyone who should also be a reader, please put
them in touch. Meanwhile, read all about our penetration into pop
culture.
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CONTENTS:
1. Good Press: People's Book Prize, Muse, ME Today, WPRI, Mencius
Moldbug
2. Movement Progress: Foldvary, Nicaragua, Initiative, Metalitz blog
3. News: Oil rent
4. Numbers: Is History Siding With Obama's Economic Plan?
5. Letters: Read Harvard Dissertation, From the New CGO President
6. Obituary: Bruce Oatman
7. Likable links: Refreshing new Depression, Toolbox, Yahoo Groups
8. What You Can Do: Reform Capitalism, Film competition, Await
bestseller, Propose alternative finance, Convert to Eco School,
Meet minimum needs, Attend AMI
9. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
10. Publication affairs: Contributors, About the Georgist News
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1a. Good Press: Nominated in the UK for the People's Book Prize by
Phil Anderson, author, phil at glasswings.com.au, August 24, 2009
The Secret of Real Estate, a geoist-style book, has been nominated for
the UK's People's Book prize. To see how Sky business news highlighted
Secret Life this month (the land question being discussed on a major
business news channel), visit:
http://www.businesschannel.com.au/video/?id=18314&articleID=424694
Link should play after the advert. Feedback welcome.
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1b. Good Press: Muse return with new album The Resistance
Devon rockers' CD follow-up to Black Holes and Revelations has hints
of Queen, Berlioz, Chopin and Lizst, glam-rock and R&B
by Dan Caims, Sunday Times, August 23, 2009 (via Wyn Achenbaum)
Millions of album sales on, and with cupboards' worth of
best-live-band awards to their name, Muse are now an international
success... Their lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter, Matt
Bellamy, sitting on the balcony at the band's beautiful wood and glass
rehearsal space in the hills inland from their hometown, doesn't look
remotely serious. Sure, he has already launched into a passionate
soliloquy about Geoism (the land-tax movement inspired by the
19th-century political economist Henry George),
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/...
Editor's Note: "Geoism" is a neologism coined decades ago by Fred
Foldvary and by yours truly separately (possibly by others as well).
Fred uses it more often than do I, preferring another original,
"geonomics", given Americans' antipathy towards ideology. Movements
need terminology, such as "sexism" for feminism, "ego" for
psychoanalysis, "evolution" for biology, etc. Good to see ours catch
on, better than another of mine -- "matriot" (lover of Mother Earth)
-- and right up there with "Citizens Dividend"; Google that one some
time. E.g., ThePeople'sVoice.org just published, August 25th, "Urgency
of the American Monetary Act", by Richard C. Cook who uses the term.
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1c. Good Press: The Curious Case of Macroeconomics Today by Brad
DeLong, UC-Berkeley, August 9, 2009 (via Wyn Achenbaum)
It seems to me that this is what I have to talk about in my Henry
George lecture this fall. Every macroeconomics course in the country
this spring should have been centered around the two questions:
*Why is the Federal Reserve now engaged in such an extraordinarily
expansionary monetary policy?
*Why does the Fed--and the Treasury, and the White House--fear that
extraordinarily expansionary monetary policy will not do enough and
thus seek to do more?
Yet my impression is that very few macroeconomics courses this spring
in fact were centered around those two questions.
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3403502
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1d. Good Press: Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
by Christian Schneider, July 30, 2009
In the article, "Why Property Taxes Might Not Be So Bad", the leading
libertarian think-tank in Wisconsin endorsed Georgist economics.
http://www.wpri.org/Commentary/2009/7.09/Sc7.30.09/Sc7.30.09.html
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1e. Good Press: Georgist entrepreneurial government
by Mencius Moldbug, at his blog, Unqualified Reservations, (reached
via "Let a Thousand Nations") (Michael Strong, CEO and Chief Visionary
Officer, FLOW, Inc., www.flowrealism.org, August 6, 2009)
Suppose, for example, that our neocameralist state raises all its
revenue with a property tax, a la Henry George. One easy way to run a
property-tax regime is a self-assessment registry: every real-estate
owner lists and updates a reserve price for every property, and anyone
can buy at this price. If owners set the price too high, they will pay
too much tax. If they set it too low, their property will be snapped
up. This system is trivial to administer, its Laffer curve should be
easy to map, and the curve's peak should be quite high.
It's easy to value this single-tax state as an enterprise. The value
of the corporation is a function of its tax rate and the total value
of its real estate. Assuming tax rates are fixed by contract, the
neocameralist state's incentive is simply to maximize property prices.
Any policy that would make it a less pleasant place to live or work is
clearly contraindicated.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
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2a. Movement Progress: Dr. Foldvary's activities in 2009
by Fred Foldvary, fred at foldvary.net, July 31, 2009
On July 29, Fred was a member of a panel in Real Estate 2.0, a meeting
on the current real estate situation. Other members included a real
estate developer, a banker, and an organizer of PRIMARQ, an enterprise
that will coordinate equity ownership in real estate, reducing the
amount that buyers will need for a down payment. Fred talked about the
business cycle and how government subsidies create real estate
bubbles. One attendee is involved with African economic development,
and Fred gave him a copy of "The Ultimate Tax Reform."
On July 9 to 11, Fred participated in FreedomFest, an annual gathering
of the freedom movement, in Las Vegas. Fred was on a panel of gurus
who accurately predicted the Crash of 2008. Fred also gave his own
talk on "By (Henry) George, why real estate is the cause of all our
problems." At FreedomFest 2007, Fred gave a lecture on why the economy
will crash in 2008, and sold copies of his booklet, The Depression of
2008.
The organizer of FreedomFest, Mark Skousen, is revising his economics
textbook, Economic Logic, and Fred offered some recommendations for
his chapter on land.
On May 21-22, Fred participated in a conference at the American
Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, for
a conference of the editors of Econ Journal Watch. I spoke on the real
estate cycle. AIER includes LVT in its classes.
On April 25-26, Fred spoke at the convention of the Libertarian Party
of California, at the city of Visalia in the Central Valley. His topic
was "Why the Financial Crisis is not a Market Failure," pointing out
that the biggest subsidy of all is to land value.
On Feb. 27 to March 1, Fred participated in the Eastern Economic
Association conference in New York City. Fred was on a panel on "Why
Georgists correctly predicted the crisis and why (almost) no one took
them seriously," sponsored by the Association for Georgist Studies,
with session organizer and chair Polly Cleveland. Fred was also on a
panel, The Earth Belongs to Everyone--Author Meets Commentators, which
reviewed the book by Alanna Hartzok.
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2b. Movement Progress: The New Building in Nicaragua
by Paul Martin, Instituto Henry George, Managua, Nicaragua, director
at ceihg.org, August 12, 2009
Thanks to each donor for your faith and support. I say faith because
we have only done one course this year and not much else as far as
visible program development. But as you may know, we are investing
heavily in the new building to make the second and third floors
functional for the new Henry George Intl. Educ. Center (CEIHG in
espanol). After my trip to the USA this month, I hope to return with
more funding to make the next step in the construction process and
offer another CE course for the year. Then we hope to start a language
and culture program for international students, which will be to help
fund the center as well as introduce those students to HG in
Nicaragua. We also are looking into getting the CEIHG non-profit
status in Nicaragua, either by sponsorship from a US-based NGO like
the Henry George Institute, or the more costly and time consuming
process of getting our own status in Nicaragua.
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2c. Movement Progress: LVT Initiative in California in 2010
by Frank D. Walker, lvt4ca at gmail.com
I intend to file papers very soon with the California Secretary of
State's office re the formation of a committee which will serve as the
sponsor of a LVT voter initiative now being drafted.
Please let me know if you have any interest in being associated with
this committee. Officers such as president, treasurer and secretary
should be California residents but anyone with an interest in this
reform can support the work of the committee.
"Seed money" for this project can be made in the form of loans or
contributions to the committee. I will be making a loan initially.
As contributions are received from individuals and business entities
who become interested in the ballot measure as a result of the
advertising and website, part of this stream of revenue will be used
to pay back the start-up loans while most of the revenues so generated
will be plowed back into the campaign. Of course, there is no
guarantee that subsequent revenues will be large enough to repay such
loans, so I will be prepared to re-characterize my personal loan as a
contribution if necessary.
Immediately following the enactment of the California LVT initiative
in Nov. 2010, and even before the July 1, 2011 effective date of the
new public revenue system, producers will be acquiring choice sites
either by purchase or by long-term leases in California as owners of
unused and under-utilized desirable sites race to strike deals which
will enable them to pay the taxes which they realize will be soon
levied upon them.
The collection of 75% of the rental value of land will also be a game-
changer for the financing of badly needed improvements in California's
public infrastructure.
With 20% of California's working population presently either
unemployed or working at part-time jobs because full-time employment
cannot be found or having given up looking for a job entirely, the
benefits that the LVT ballot measure will bring should resonate
strongly with many Californians.
Also enhancing the political prospects of the California LVT ballot
measure is the fact that it will significantly reduce the current
state & local tax burden of a large majority of California's
population.
My plan is to have a website fully functional and online when the
proposed initiative is submitted to the State Attorney General's
office for review on or about Sept. 25, 2009. The online advertising
campaign will begin immediately after the initiative has been
submitted. The goal is to build an organization of supporters who will
conduct a well-organized drive to obtain sufficient signatures of
registered voters to qualify the measure for the Nov. 2010 ballot.
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2d. Movement Progress: Chicago Chuck Metalitz Menace
by Chuck Metalitz, August 9, 2009
A version of Progress & Poverty with a summary in the margins of (just
about) every page has been posted. Some readers may find this useful.
The marginal summary has also been compiled into a 39-page
freestanding pdf.
http://menaceofprivilege.com/2009/07/progress-poverty-synopsis/
Also I have renamed my blog and moved it to
http://menaceofprivilege.com/
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3. News: Should We Pay to Keep Oil in the Ground Or Share It?
To keep up with the latest in the world of economic justice, try
visiting the daily news site, the Progress Report. You'll find such
articles as:
Oil makes a few rich, many poor. Suggested reforms are paying to keep
it buried, transparency, and a geonomic dividend. "US Senate
Entertains a Bill to Set Up an Iraqi Dividend"
http://www.progress.org/2009/ecuador.htm
Sending the progress.org link to friends, family, neighbors, and co-
workers is a great way to establish a shared frame of reference for a
discussion about how to solve economic issues.
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4a. Numbers: Land Prices Tallied
via Frank Walker, August 4, 2009
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Graaskamp Center for Real
Estate at the Wisconsin School of Business announced a new online
database detailing land and property values in the United States.
Located in the Resources and Tools section of www.lincolninst.edu,
Land and Property Values in the U.S.,
[http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/land-values/] provides separate
price indices for land and structures, in addition to the more common
price indices for property -- land and structures combined.
Addendum by Michael Hudson, August 10, 2009: I bet they define "cost"
as "replacement cost" so as to impute the maximum amount of land value
to the building (the more to depreciate ...). Now that I'm a regular
Financial Times columnist, I can review their study, if they send me a
copy.
I have a scoop next Monday on Iceland - Icesave crooked dealings and
debt peonage.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3a6cf22-8a8b-11de-ad08-00144feabdc0.html
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4b. Numbers: Is History Siding With Obama's Economic Plan?
Want all the current indicators in one place? Periodically, The
Progress Report publishes just such an article. To give readers
greater breadth, depth, and the most salient facts, many articles at
the Progress Report are not single articles but compilations on one
theme, offering data on one sector:
Over nine tenths of Americans receive more money under Democratic
rule. Will it be the same this time around? "Tax Me is what some rich
Americans tell Obama" http://www.progress.org/2009/taxrates.htm
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5a. Letters: Re Last Issue's Harvard Dissertation
by Joe Mazor
My dissertation is now available as a working paper at:
www.ethics.harvard.edu/...
(pdf). I'm happy for anyone to view it. If Georgists are curious
regarding what it's all about, I think the abstract and table of
contents would give them a pretty good idea.
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5b. Letters: From the New CGO President
by Ed Dodson, President, ejdodson at comcast.net,
Our 2009 conference held in Cleveland, Ohio has come and gone. Some 80
of us gathered for four days of serious discussion on the state of our
world. The presentations will soon be available on the CGO website. We
encourage you to review and make effective use of these video
sessions. I urged our colleagues associated with the Henry George
Schools to make productive use of the recordings. A classroom is not
the only way to introduce friends and colleagues to the richness of
perspectives offered at our conference. Anyone with a DVD burner can
download key session videos and distribute them.
Those of us who have been involved in the Georgist community for
several decades or longer were heartened by the attendance of several
younger enthusiasts and other "first timers." We were also joined by
two of our most talented and dedicated Australian colleagues, Phil
Anderson and Karl Fitzgerald.
Our great challenge is how to lift our message onto the global stage
as part of everyday discourse. Walt Rybeck, our banquet speaker,
brought this message home to us, as he recalled lessons of past
campaigns. Few have contributed more of themselves to the Georgist
cause over the years.
Next year, we will be meeting during July in Albany, New York. Our
colleague Bill Batt, who resides in Albany and has strong ties with
state government officials, is part of our conference planning team.
We will be developing a strategy to make sure as many officials, staff
members, and community organizations as possible are introduced to our
perspectives well in advance of our conference. Only in this way will
our message have a meaningful impact on the decision-making by New
York's state assembly.
Albany will also be a conference in which we will attempt to offer
sessions targeted to the interests and priorities of our members. Our
response is to allow for break-out sessions that run concurrently and
repeat. This means that conference attendees must select sessions
based on interest. This structure also offers attendees to move from
session to session when the topic under discussion proves to be of
lower interest than anticipated. The amount of time devoted to these
break-out sessions will depend on the number of you who express a
desire to lead a session. We also encourage CGO member organizations
to consider developing a session that highlights your activities and
perspectives. Importantly, do not put off discussion of how you would
like to participate in the conference. The number of participants
plays an important role in our requirements for meeting rooms at the
hotel and other considerations of session length, breaks, and whether
we plan for evening sessions or allow the evenings as free time. All
proposals for possible sessions need to be submitted to me at
ejdodson@comcast.net on of before October 1, 2009.
This year we lost several of our friends: Dick Noyes, Bob Drake and
Larry Moss. Dick suffered from ill health for some years and had not
been able to attend conferences. Many of us will recall his strong
influence on past CGO conferences and the strength of his personality
and intellect. Bob Drake's death was very sudden and unexpected, made
more tragic because he was (by Georgist standards) still a young man.
Yet, he leaves behind the extremely valuable contribution of a
modernized edition of 'Progress and Poverty' that is less intimidating
to many of today's readers than the original. I never had the good
fortune to meet Larry Moss, but Ted Gwartney and others who knew him
well describe him with great fondness and admiration. He very ably
served for over a decade as editor of the American Journal of
Economics and Sociology.
One of my priorities as President of the CGO is to do all I can to
bring you and new supporters to the conferences. As a first step,
would you please contact me and let me know how you feel about the
annual conferences. If you have not been attending for some years, is
the reason one of health concerns, the financial costs involved,
demands on your time during the summer months (when the CGO
conferences have been held), or other reasons? If you are not able to
attend but would be willing to provide a financial scholarship for
someone else to attend, this could be very helpful to enable younger
people to attend who have the interest but not the wherewithal. We
ought to consider establishing a special fund for this purpose.
I look forward to your comments and any suggestions you have to make
the CGO ever more effective.
Sue Walton, CGO staff, adds: The CGO is considering starting an
announcement listserve for its conference participants who wish to
receive email announcements of conferences and other important news.
If you are interested in this very special listserve, please contact
Sue Walton at sns at swwalton.com
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6. Obituary: Bruce Oatman
by Cay Hehner, Director of Education, Henry George School of Social
Science, NYC, August 17, 2009
With sadness I have to report that Bruce Oatman has died. He was a
good man whose immense humility at times prevented you from perceiving
his greatness and his many outstanding assets. For instance I knew him
and was fairly good friends with him for about a decade before I
learned (not from himself, of course) that he had a Harvard and a New
School degree and that he had been a sociology professor upstate New
York for a dozen years. As the head of the HGS board search committee,
he was responsible for hiring me and through the years as head of the
Education committee he was always the first person I took counsel with
on any matter of moment. I literally could not have worked or
"survived" without him. He was by a large margin my best American
friend and represented the best of what that great nation has to
offer: Keenness of intellect, open-mindedness, generosity to a fault,
an inclusive nature, a good more than protestant work ethic and more
qualities than can be put in a short email. He will be sorely missed
by all who have ever known him. I expressed my condolences to his next
of kin on behalf of all of us.
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7a. Likable link: Refreshing new Depression
by Bryan Kavanagh, August 26, 2009
I launched a new weblog today called "The Depression". I was amazed
when I found the domain name hadn't been taken in Australia, so I hope
I can get it to amount to something. http://thedepression.org.au/
Alanna Hartzok adds: Great blog site, love your pieces, just left a
comment on it.
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7b. Likable link: EarthSharing Toolbox
by Karl Fitzgerald, Projects Coordinator, Earthsharing Australia,
August 28, 2009
As promised at the CGO, here are some useful tools for
geo-campaigners:
As an overview, my presentation on how to reach the youth, the media
(basically an overview of our Oz operations). Contact me to see the
PowerPoint, k2 at earthsharing.org.au
Our Speculative Vacancy reports: The 2007 I Want to Live Here Report
('on the ground' analysis)
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2007/11/15/iw2/
The 2008 I Want to Live Here Report (using water consumption stats in
high density areas to deduct vacancies)
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/2008/12/08/2008-i-want-to-live-here-
report-release/
Useful Economics Detectives Kit (how to find vacancies)
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/wp-content/uploads/edetecta5.pdf
IW2LH Detective Magnet
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/wp-content/uploads/iw2_zine_final.pdf
Gavin Putland's : From the subprime to the terrigenous: Recession
begins at home
http://blog.lvrg.org.au/2009/06/from-subprime-to-terrigenous-
recession.html
Renegade Economists Podcast - this week's featuring Wendell Fitzgerald
on 'Conflict of Interest'
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/renegade-economists/
New Oz geo-news highlights - courtesy of David Pecotic, twice a week.
http://www.earthsharing.org.au/tag/fast-forward-news/
Please note my email address to k2 at earthsharing.org.au - my swymap
address has finally closed after many long years.
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7c. Likable link: George on Yahoo Groups
by Robert Blau, August 26, 2009
To see what kind of representation/diversity we have on Yahoo Groups,
visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=georgist
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=%22henry+george%22
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8a. What You Can Do: Reform Capitalism
by Scott Baker, Author, Editor (Op Ed News), Community Activist, New
York City, August 1, 2009
Thank you for linking to my article in Op Ed News, Geonomics: whatever
happened to the movement Henry George started? Now, I have started a
petition to restructure the way resource intensive companies (Miners,
Oil/Coal/NatGas drillers, CAFOs etc.) work, along Geonomic lines. The
petition aims to untax production and wages, while taxing the use and
abuse of resources (Land, Water, Air, Oil, Coal, Natural Gas etc.).
Polluters pay while workers and entrepreneurs profit from true
production. You can sign on to the petition at:
http://www.change.org/actions/view/a_new_form_of_capitalism_geonomics
I specifically aimed at resource-intensive industries because everyone
understands something is very wrong in the way they can rape the land,
make gonzo profits, while their customers pay ever-increasing fees,
often for no better products (did Exxon's oil "improve" last year,
while their profits hit a record high? No, they just benefited from
the speculator-driven soaring of oil prices - that price increase
should have been taxed away, all of it, and returned to the
community). Of course, if we have a true resource value tax, there
wouldn't have BEEN such a bottle-rocket of price appreciation).
Everyone who signs automatically emails our nationally elected
representatives, plus their own local ones - so the effect of one
signature is multiplied many times over. I intend to fax the petition
to the main recipients as well, once the petition runs its course next
year. Hopefully, it will not be too late for our economy by then.
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8b. What You Can Do: Film Competition
by Karl Fitzgerald, June 13, 2009
Join the Facebook group "'I Want To Live Here' Film Competition 2009".
Artists create the scene, speculators wipe it clean! if you're sick of
being played as a pawn get your head around the gentrification game so
we can turn this baby around! Follow the link below:
www.facebook.com/...
Also, to see that latest issue of EarthSharing, focusing on "Planet
for Sale", email news at earthsharing.org.au
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8c. What You Can Do: Help promote New Bestseller
by Mason Gaffney, m.Gaffney at dslextreme.com, August 15, 2009
A new book, 'After the Crash', is to be published by Wiley-Blackwell
in October. This is the 2009 item in its annual series of books
selected by the Editors of AJES. (It was Larry Moss who worked out
this contract.) The bulk of this book is also available in ppb as the
October number of the AJES.
Cliff Cobb served as Editor, quickly stitching together many of my
short pieces into a more coherent whole. He added so much of his own
research I asked him to be co-author, but he insisted I was the author
and he the Editor, and so it will appear.
I am overwhelmed by the support that Larry Moss, his widow Widdy, Ted
Gwartney, and Cliff gave to this enterprise, and grateful for life (or
even for eternity, if we should be so lucky). Along with what they did
I am even more grateful for the friendship and good will they all
showed in bringing this work to life, not to mention their enterprise,
initiative, and expedition. Rarely does a writer see his work slide so
quickly down skids so well greased.
They say you should never marry a writer. I won't go that far, but it
does take an unusually supportive spouse to share the sacrifices
involved, over many years, and I owe an immense debt to my dear wife
Tish. I promised her golf and skiing on our honeymoon in 1973, but
what with this, that, and the other, we never got around to it. 3
children did take up a lot of time.
Naturally this book is imbued with the Georgist message, but there is
lots more, for better or worse. First there is a Georgist
interpretation of boom and bust, along the lines that Phillip Anderson
expressed so well at our Cleveland conference, but with my own added
wrinkle which brings in the capital theory that George omitted.
Then there is a new framework for macro-economics in which capital
turnover is basic, while monetary and fiscal policies are froth on the
waves. This is aimed at the immediate and permanent goals of revving
up the supply of commercial loans and working capital to keep the
Great Wheel of macroeconomics turning. The damage of land speculation
is seen not just in withholding land from labor, but in abetting the
freezing of capital in slow-turning forms. Larry would have liked, I
think, the integration of Georgist and Austrian analyses. Cliff and I
hope that this approach will help integrate Georgist economics with
what are now "mainstream" views.
Last there is a rationale for fractional-reserve banking, but showing
how we may civilize it by preventing the use of land value as
collateral for loans.
I remain awestruck at how Cliff cobbled all this together in two and a
half months; his emails often registered at hours like 3:30 AM. I hope
you will like the results.
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8d. What You Can Do: European Union calls for alternative approaches
to finance
by Miriam Kennet, Green Economics Institute,
www.greeneconomics.org.uk; Editor, International Journal of Green
Economics, www.inderscience.com/ijge, August 11, 2009
Research finance from an interdisciplinary perspective. Given the
amount of the project (several million euros), it is expected to
attract proposals of teams (composed of around ten or more research
units) coming from as many Europeans countries as possible. The
project has not only a scientific objective, but also a normative one.
It should not only include academic teams, but also engage
stakeholders such as researchers having some link to trade unions, and
organizations engaged in the protection of the environment, among
others. Ronan O'Brien, who is in charge of the project, is very open
to the social studies of finance and is quite available for any
questions concerning the ways to submit an acceptable proposal. Note
that the deadline is in February.
http://cordis.europa.eu/...
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8e. What You Can Do: Convert to Eco School
by Alanna Hartzok, earthrts at pa.net, 717-264-0957, August 25, 2009
The state of Pennsylvania is closing down the Scotland School for
Veteran's Children, located in south central PA. I propose converting
it into a School of Sustainable Living. Myself and the two other
design team members seek your guidance and suggestions as to how we
might go about securing the 180 acres and the 70 building campus for
this purpose. Last week we met with a Franklin County Commissioner,
the community dev. corp. director, and someone from a state senator's
office, all of whom were supportive and interested in the proposal.
Available is a proposal just two pages long (also the Gaia Ecovillage
Education Program).
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8f. What You Can Do: Meet the Minimum Needs of All
by Radh Achuthan, mmna30 at gmail.com, July 20, 2009
The "Institute to Meet the Minimum Needs of All" a non-profit
organization, is planning a global Webinar on "Meet the Minimum Needs
of All 2030" - Intention, to assemble, educate and network with
representatives of organizations currently involved in eradicating
global poverty, and representatives of G-192, and representatives of
G-20, on MMNA30. The Webinar, planned for Sept 09, would examine the
problems /particulars of formulating the Intention.
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8g. What You Can Do: Attend outstanding program
by Stephen Zarlenga, American Monetary Institute, ami at taconic.net,
August 6, 2009
The AMI 5th Annual Monetary Reform Conference will be held at
Roosevelt University in Chicago, Sept. 24-27th. "After Downing Street"
gave us this nice write up at
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/45464
AMI Researcher Jamie Walton argues that pushing the State governments
to enter the banking business would actually work against reform at:
http://www.monetary.org/moneyscenefive.html
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9. the Margin: Quips and Quotes
How many of you believe in psychokinesis? Raise my hand.
-- Larry the Cable Guy
You can lead them to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
-- Roland Begin
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joubert
Most of what I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
-- Robert Fulghum
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10. Publication affairs: Contributing to this issue
Along with those acknowledged above with each blurb,
Editor: Jeffery J. Smith
Assistant Editor: Caspar Davis
Archivist: Stewart Goldwater
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The Georgist News, Volume Twelve, Number Three, September 1, 2009