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A Canberra for the 21st Century

A New Capital Is Coming to Indonesia. Will Nusantara be Funded with Land Value Capture? Jakarta, Indonesia, has been a...

Manchester Waits in the Wings

When will people stop thinking that London is the ne plus ultra of the United Kingdom? London is unaffordable. It swoons over its exile...

A Different Type of Land Value Tax In the Republic of Ireland

Once Ireland was a rural and poverty-stricken land. Hundreds of years of British rule by a landed aristocracy sucked rent, food,...

Tomatoes, Robots, Civilization, and Farm Fresh Equity

  Introduction Today I ate a tomato. Yet, this was not just any tomato. I had picked this one moments...

The “Unland Land” Around Us

  Introduction “You are blocking my sun, dude!” This was a common refrain back in the SoCal poolside of my...

High Gasoline Prices? Oligopoly as a Safe Harbor or Pearl Harbor (depending on your point of view)

In the late 1890s the problem was monopoly, so the Sherman Anti-Trust Act1 was enacted to counter manufacturing monopolies. Were Sherman...

Living Equitably with Tech at Any Age

For all those kids out there from 1 to 92 who need to use technology how do you make it...

Home Sweet Home: Or Required Refuge

  Introduction Recently, I was reminded of some of the fundamentals of life. You may have heard of the Rule...

Fiscal Policies for a Low -Carbon Economy

Report by Willi Semmler, João Paulo Braga, Andreas Lichtenberger, MariemeToure, and Erin Hayde Climate disasters are occurring with ever higher...