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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...

Zero-price Land and the Rent Moratorium

  The rent moratorium has now been extended to December 31, 2020. The solution to the problem of tenants having...

Renters: Land Value Taxation Saves You Money

  In this era of heightened awareness of social justice, it is important that we keep focused on those things...

Housing Crisis in British Columbia

In this opening post of the Henry George School of Social Science blog on Reality Economics, we focus on the...

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...

Can Diaspora Bonds Supercharge Development Investment?

by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan Over the past two decades one of the most intriguing ideas in development finance has been...

Tech To Table: Global Trade and Your Smart Kitchen

A Grape’s Journey When I wake up each morning, I like to make myself a cup of coffee and a...

Lions and Tigers and Technology: Why new tech (like vaccines) scare us

Introduction Since the earliest times, technologies have been a two-edged sword – literally. They cut both ways. We all remember...