George opens by rejecting the dominant late-Victorian explanation of civilization's advance: the Spencerian view that progress is a slow evolutionary transformation of human nature itself, fixed by ...

British Columbia's provincial Crown corporation, created in 1974, that independently values every property in the province for property-tax purposes — cited by Common Wealth Canada as ready-made ...

A quote lands in a room where a citation doesn't. This is the advocate's supply of verbatim, verified lines — every quotation below is transcribed word-for-word and linked to the wiki page that holds ...

The wiki's DST incidence page covers the theory (Cui & Hashimzade's location-specific-rent rationale) and the sharpest single incidence estimate (Muddasani & Langenmayr's finding that Amazon passed ...

The distribution of income was a big topic in the economics literature of the 1970s. The most-used theoretical basis of welfare economics is ASWF, the “additive social welfare function”based on ...

Almost all economists, financial analysts, journalists, pundits, bloggers, and armchair cynics will scoff at this prediction. But the cycle exists because people don ...

There are many people who blame ‘capitalism’ for the world’s economic problems, such as poverty, unemployment, inequality, and environmental destruction. This common belief is based on a confusion of ...

Someone just threw an objection at you. Find it here: what they say, what you say back in one or two sentences, the honest concession to make first where the criticism has real force, and the page to ...

Speech is a danger if it directly incites people to physically attack the targeted group. But if speech only offends a targeted group, this is not considered a crime. The government of Canada ...

Excessive traffic fines create distrust between the police and the people. What’s needed is tax reform that eliminates the financial incentive for taxation by citation. “Taxation by citation” is the ...

For two hundred years, there has been a real estate cycle in the USA with an average duration of 18 years. There are similar cycles in other countries. For example, an article by Lindsay David, ...

The Supreme Court ruled that rights may not be taxed. Therefore the right to engage in labor should not be taxed. A moral right is a correlative or flip side of a moral wrong. The right to have X ...