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The Renegade Economist (FRED HARRISON) now has a storehouse of recent original, provocative and fundmentally important videos. New interviews are added weekly if not more often. These are professionally produced. See http://renegadeeconomist.com (You may have to copy and paste the url to the web address)
"Modernizing Henry George" by Herman Daly 7-18-10
Herman Daly elaborates on the economics of Henry George — reckoning with resources, redistributing rents, and a supplying a sane strategy for serving people and planet: ".... if we insist that population and per capita consumption must be free to grow, then the rising cost of natural resources must indirectly limit growth, and the question of who receives the increasing rent (who owns nature) will become ever more pressing, and Henry George’s thinking ever more relevant. Alternatively, our increasing takeover of nature will, beyond some point, render moot the question of distribution of rents by eliminating all potential claimants! When an overloaded ship sinks all aboard drown — even if the overload is justly distributed and efficiently allocated!"
SOCIAL PROBLEMS 1883 to the tune WESTCHESTER CATHEDRAL
It's probably true Henry George was not too impressed with the Church. This short video - to the tune of WESTCHESTER CATHEDRAL and quotes directly from George's SOCIAL PROBLEMS (1883) - is cute but a little off-topic in its billing as HENRY GEORGE ON RELIGION since the piece actually comes from Chapter VIII "THAT WE ALL MIGHT BE RICH" pgs. --- 71-72 and isn't so much an attack on established religion as a descriptive piece setting up a deeper analysis of the cause of poverty in the later chapters of SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
What is ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS? Watch this fascinating video series with Joshua Farley of the GUND INSTITUTE at University of Vermont
It is explained in this YouTube video series by Joshua Farley who is interviewed by Marvin Polis May 18, 2010 — Ecological economics provides us with insights into the relationship between economic activity and the capacity of the Earth's resources to sustain us. In this video series produced by the City of Edmonton Joshua Farley, one of the visionary thinkers in this discipline, provides an overview of many critical relationships, and gives examples of how responsive policy measures can be applied in an urban setting like Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.
Philippe Legrain, author of “Aftershock" explains "Why Britain needs a land tax" - 2 minute YouTube video, June 17, 2010
See the"Why Britain needs a land tax" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPbJYJYCge0> Philippe Legrain also wrote an article in The Times on 16 June 2010 advocating the introduction of a tax on land values. See the accompanying video clip that The Times produced to go with it <http://www.youtube.com/user/PhilippeLegrain> and read the full article <http://www.philippelegrain.com/tax-land-not-labour>
PART 1 REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTS, REAL ESTATE TAXATION, and REAL EXPERIENCE -- Assessor Gwartney goes to Latvia
REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTS REAL ESTATE TAXATION REAL EXPERIENCE Retiring from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation board after nine years in May, 2010, TED GWARTNEY tells us about a trip to LATVIA the following week, May 25th and the reasons for it. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er5Ntnx0goI Ted's has had a very impressive career. This video is PART 1 There will be more soon on his almost 2 decade experiences in British Columbia
DVD release April 27th, 2010 of "THE END OF POVERTY? " - 2008 Cannes Critics' Week OFFICIAL SELECTION
"THE END OF POVERTY? Official Selection at CRITICS' WEEK 2008 at Cannes Film Festival Its DVD release is due in April, 2010 Schedule receiving a copy on your "NETFLIX Queue" now!
"THE END OF POVERTY?" - the DVD is on NETFLIX as an INSTANT PLAY Netflix has 1300 copies. Why not SPONSOR a licence for your school system, college, university, free library system, church, or non-profit organization?
As a collaborator with Cinema Libre Studio in the production of “The End of Poverty?” the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation hopes you enjoyed watching the film and that it has raised a number of questions in your mind.
Tom Johnson: Progressive Reform for the Common Man
A FINALIST in the 2009 National History Day, this is a brilliant documentary on Tom L. Johnson
AUDIO version of 2006 "PROGRESS & POVERTY" abridgement
PROGRESS & POVERTY (2006 - the new abridged edition) thanks to the Henry George School of Chicago
The RENEGADE ECONOMIST - http://renegadeeconomist.com/
The RENEGADE ECONOMIST is Fred Harrison in London. He takes no prisoners.
"Land Value Tax: Can Philadelphia rise like the Phoenix?"
Real Estate Property Tax Reform: down-taxing wages, business and buildings; Instead of 10 year tax abatement (benefiting landowners) how about universal tax abatements on buildings benefiting homeowners and the best land uses?
The Great Crash of 2008 by Mason Gaffney - http://www.schalkenbach.org/library/GaffneyGreatCrash.htm
From "Groundswell" - July/August 2008 This crash is The Big One; it has the signs of becoming a Category 5. How do we know? We’ve “been there and done that” so many times before, roughly every 18 years over the last 800 or more. Major wars and, rarely, plagues have broken the rhythm, along with the little ice age, reformation and counter-reformation, political revolutions and reactions, the rise of nation-states, the enclosure movement, the age of exploration, massive European imports of stolen American gold, the scientific and industrial revolutions, the Crusades, Mongol and Turkish invasions, and other upheavals. Yet, the endogenous cycle keeps returning, as soon as we find peace, and economic life returns to its even tenors. What President Warren Harding famously called “normalcy” soon evolved into another boom and a shocking bust, as so often before. Calm and routine prosperity has never been man’s lot for long: it somehow leads to its own downfall, cycle after cycle. http://www.schalkenbach.org/library/GaffneyGreatCrash.htm
The INTERNATIONAL UNION - http://www.theIU.org
The International Union was founded to promote permanent peace and prosperity for everyone by re-establishing mankind’s natural relationship with land.
WEALTH & WANT -- http://www.wealthandwant.com/index.htm
Enormous, valuable, related sites for information on Henry George, Georgism and such are: - WEALTH & WANT -- http://www.wealthandwant.com/index.htm - THE SCHOOL OF COOPERATIVE INDIVIDUALISM -- http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/
THE SCHOOL OF COOPERATIVE INDIVIDUALISM - http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org
Enormous, valuable, related sites for information on Henry George, Georgism and such are: - THE SCHOOL OF COOPERATIVE INDIVIDUALISM -- http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/ - WEALTH & WANT -- http://www.wealthandwant.com/index.htm
Read THE PROGRESS REPORT online
THE PROGRESS REPORT is an online daily e-zine or e-paper since 1997 http://www.PROGRESS.org
"Land Value Tax: Can Philadelphia rise like the Phoenix?"
The Henry George Foundation / Center for the Study of Economics recently produced the 4 minute video on YouTube "Land Value Tax: Can Philadelphia rise like the Phoenix?" --- "HGFA reports from Fishtown. The Land Value Tax not only would help raise revenue from a proper source - publicly-created economic "rent" but would permit the gradual ratcheting down of harmful taxation that has made the Philadelphia one of the sick patients of American Cities. There is a better way: land value tax." See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grJJds_G6uc&feature=related (You may have to copy and paste the url to the web address) [n.b. a related video by the Renegade Economist is "Ricardo's Law: The Great Tax Clawback Scam" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkfmY1PMng ]
