The Silver Bullet
Face it. The world is no closer to consigning poverty to history. Why is there still poverty from whole countries of the poor South, to the back streets, slums and trailer parks of the rich West? The good intentions, the money, the rhetoric, the pity and the media histrionics are but pinpricks to a world-rampaging monster. They say there is no silver bullet. Neither Geldof or Bono, nor the United Nations, nor the vast assembled hosts of international aid and development agencies have the answer. Doesn t every citizen of the world have an equal right to the good life? With so much wealth in the world, why are so many of us so poor, when we could rid ourselves of this monster? And the fact is, there is only one way to kill poverty…
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The Earth Rights Institute online education program
The people of Africa do not need aid. They can fund their infrastructure out of their own resources - the rents that are being sieved out of the continent. This self-funding mechanism (described in Ch. 5 [§3]) is the solution that economists choose to ignore. If you want to prove them wrong on behalf of the dollar-a-day billion, the starting point is for you to join the education program that has started in the West, which will eventually oblige politicians to take action on behalf of the bottom billion.
Rent! The final economic frontier
The key to a lasting peace between the Jewish Israelis and the Arab Palestinians is the payment of rent for land. Palestinians and Israelis fight and kill for land, yet paying rent for land remains an unknown concept. This illustrates the importance of understanding basic economics.
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From Public to Private Domain in a Blink of an Eye
Ed Dodson’s paper investigates the transition of land into private domain and role of land speculation in the expansion of the United States west of the Mississippi River
The discovery by European explorers of the vast and thinly-populated western hemisphere set into motion a migration of groups from the Old World that eventually overwhelmed others who for tens of thousands of years slowly created their own distinct civilizations. The fate of the First Americans was sealed, their displacement (and in some cases annihilation) secured as soon as they became dependent upon the weapons and other goods introduced by Spanish, French, English and other European traders
Winston S. Churchill on Land Monopoly
Speech made to the House of Commons on May 4, 1909.
Land monopoly is not the only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies - it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
Unearned increments in land are not the only form of unearned or undeserved profit, but they are the principal form of unearned increment, and they are derived from processes, which are not merely not beneficial, but positively detrimental to the general public.
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Opportunities for International Financial Centres in the 21st Century
This paper was given as a Keynote banquet address at the ‘Conference on the Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice’, hosted by The Bahamas Bar Association, in association with The International Bar Association, The Bahamas Financial Services Board, The Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, and The Inter-American Bar Association.
The Conference took place in Superclub Breezes, Nassau, July 16, 1999.
by Professor Mason Gaffney
Land value the only fair rating base
Published in the Cape Town newspaper The Cape Argus on 4 August 2000 was the below quoted article written by Godfrey R. A. Dunkley, the Immediate Past President of The International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade.
Land Value Tax: Cure for Poverty and Unemployment
This paper for the International Research Foundation for Development, Inc., was presented at the United Nations World Forum for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2000, by Ms. Pat Aller who represented and spoke on behalf of the International Union for Land Value Taxation, as one of this organisation’s two NGO-representatives to the UN, 1992-2002.
Citizens’ Dividends and Oil Resource Rent
A Focus on Alaska, Norway and Nigeria
Alanna Hartzok is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, Vice President of the Council of Georgist Organizations, and UN NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation.
This paper was presented in the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG) track of the Eastern Economic Association 30th Annual Conference held February 20 - 22, 2004 in Washington, DC.
Straight Talk on Free Trade
January 2001 The Henry George Institute’s website www.henrygeorge.org brought Harry Pollard’s comments on the above articles.
Harry Pollard is the longtime Director of the Henry George School of Social Science in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking incisively on the Georgist philosophy for decades. He joins the HGI website as a regular columnist.
