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Henry George, Economic Justice and the Environment By David Cadman and Scherto Gill   For how could there be greed where all had enough?  How could the vice, the crime, the ignorance, the brutality, that spring from poverty and the fear of poverty, exist where poverty had vanished?  Who should crouch where all were freemen; […]

Private Property, Economic Freedom, and the Socialization of Rent By Gavin Kerr The idea of land value taxation (LVT) featured more prominently in the UK General Election of 2017 than perhaps in any UK election since the General Election of 1911, when Lloyd George’s Liberal Party won a mandate to implement the package of land-taxes […]

Did Henry George Want a Universal Basic Income? By Simom McKenna Universal basic income is a policy proposal currently receiving a lot of attention among Georgists. The policy proposes to redistribute taxes as cash payments to individuals at a level adequate to cover basic living expenses. Unlike means-tested benefits, universal basic income payments could be […]

Natural Law David Triggs Key to understanding the ideas of Henry George is an appreciation of the respect that he had for the natural world and the laws of nature or Natural Law. Henry George saw how the physical sciences sought to discover and describe those laws that govern the physical universe and that when […]

Natural Justice By Joseph Milne In his The Origin and Goal of History the philosopher Karl Jaspers writes:   Since the earliest times man has attempted to picture the whole to himself: first in mythical images (in theogonies and cosmogonies, in which man has his appointed place), then in the image of divine activity operating […]

Introducing Annual Land Value Taxation on Residential Land Public references to land value taxation are becoming more frequent. A recent example appeared in the December 2015 Article IV report by the International Monetary Fund.   Property tax reform, along the lines recommended in the Mirrlees Review, could help reduce vulnerabilities in the housing market by […]

Just Interest Interest is a key aspect of the modern economy; its rate affects pensions, public and private investment, mortgages and savings.  How could commerce and business function efficiently without being able to borrow money at interest? How could savings be directed towards their useful application without revenues from interest? Macroeconomic thinking has it that […]

George’s Revolutionary Christianity “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” Romans 12:2 By Simom McKenna Where is God? If one quotes selectively from George’s works, one can easily mistake George for an atheist, such is the extent and ferocity of his non-conformism. Yet Christian wisdom […]

Public Revenue Without Taxation   By Peter Bowman It is now widely recognised that the free market system provides a self-organising process that enables a more efficient allocation of a society’s resources than alternative arrangements based on the implementation of pre-conceived plans by central authorities. At the same time the market system offers much greater […]