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Reach Out And Prod Someone

Newsweek, October 14, 1991

“If we can’t have politically distinct political parties in America, let’s at least have politically distinct long-distance companies,” Barnes says.

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Schumacher Lecture 2: Economics for the Anthropocene

Schumacher Center for New Economics, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, July 2014

IN THIS NEW ERA, our economy must do two things it doesn’t do now: operate in harmony with nature and provide adequate income for all.  The best way to achieve these goals — that is, the way that requires the least involvement of government — is to “propertize” some pieces of common wealth and share the income from that wealth equally.

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Why Georgists Should Be Paineists

Speech to the Council of Georgist Organizations, Los Angeles, July 11, 2014

I BELIEVE that the remedy proposed by followers of Henry George should shift from taxing rent to recycling it. To put it another way, I think Georgists should be Paineists. The reason is that money sent to government doesn’t necessarily improve the lot of those being crushed by extractive rent. But money returned as dividends does.

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