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Understanding Economics: 1 - Asking The Four (Right) Questions
Ekleme Tarihi 429 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerWe survey a long list of economic problems, and identify four basic questions that a course in political economy must address: 1. Why is there poverty, amid progress? 2. Why are there Boom/Bust cycles? 3. Must society trade between efficiency and equity?
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Understanding Economics: 10 - Henry George's Remedy
Ekleme Tarihi 1,611 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerGeorge’s remedy came to be known as the Single Tax: the collection of the rent of land for public revenue, and the elimination of taxes on labor and capital. First we consider the question of whether such a policy accords with the principles of justice.
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Understanding Economics: 11 - The Remedy
Ekleme Tarihi 222 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerThe Remedy: Exploring Public Revenue Options. The basic principles of sensible taxation policy have been agreed upon, ever since Adam Smith first articulated them in his “Canons of Taxation.” We evaluate various sources of public revenue according to thos
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Understanding Economics: 12 - Application Of The Remedy
Ekleme Tarihi 329 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerApplication of the Remedy, Short- and Long-Term — “We already take some rent in taxation,” Henry George wrote. “We have only to make some changes in our modes of taxation to take it all.” That seems easy enough, yet it has proved challenging politically.
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Understanding Economics: 13 - Frequently Asked Questions
Ekleme Tarihi 452 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerFrequently-Asked Questions — We address a broad sampling of common critiques of the Georgist proposal. Leo Tolstoy said, "People to not disagree with the teaching of George, they simply do not know it. He who becomes acquainted with it cannot but agree."
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Understanding Economics: 14 - How Much Rent Is There?
Ekleme Tarihi 299 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerIf we grant that the rent of land is the ideal source of public revenue, can we show that there would be enough of it to satisfy the needs of a modern government? What is the state of knowledge on the aggregate amount of rent today — and how would that to
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Understanding Economics: 15 - Sustainability Squared With Dr. Polly Cleveland
Ekleme Tarihi 679 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerSustainability Squared — Interview with a special guest, environmental economist Dr. Polly Cleveland, on the structural economic forces that intensify environmental damage today. By eliminating wasteful subsidies, and using more labor and less capital and
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Understanding Economics: 16 - The Law Of Human Progress
Ekleme Tarihi 2,003 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerThe Law of Human Progress — Did modern industrial, national economies curse themselves, when they appropriated and commodified the natural world? What are the basic elements of human progress, and how can they be sustained in a rapidly-changing, globalizi
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Understanding Economics: 2 - Why Is There Poverty?
Ekleme Tarihi 337 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerStandard theories — Over the years, various reasons have been proposed to account for persistent poverty in a progressive society. Is poverty caused by overpopulation? By a lack of capital investment? Is poverty an inherent part of a capitalistic society?
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Understanding Economics: 3 - Definitions In Political Economy
Ekleme Tarihi 922 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerIt is essential that we know what our terms mean. This can be problematic in economic study, because it uses terms differently than people do in everyday speech. Furthermore, there are key differences between microeconomics, which studies behavior of indi
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Understanding Economics: 4 - The Laws Of Distribution
Ekleme Tarihi 354 İzlenme / 0 BeğenilerWe develop an economic model, using the island of Manhattan as our example, that shows the basic principles of how society’s wealth gets divided among the factors of production.
