Category: IU Members’ Articles
By ALANNA HARTZOK ABSTRACT – This essay examines Henry George’s perspective on war and peace. With justice added to the foundation in the way that Henry George proposes, the conditions of inequality and conflict...
Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole….Excessive profits...
By Alanna Hartzok Abstract: This paper begins with a statement of considerable relevance to the topic from the founding document of UN-Habitat. Foundational terms and concepts are then defined, essential for comparing classical economics...
Kidane Hiwot No man can control nature or universal law, neither ‘Men seeks to gratify their desires with the least exertion.” Nor no power can refuse when gravitated by earth. Only the creator has...
Alanna HartzokEarth Rights Institute This paper begins with a statement of considerable relevance to the topic from the foundingdocument of UN-Habitat. Foundational terms and concepts are then defined, essential for comparing classical economics with...
H. William Batt, Ph.D., Board of DirectorsRobert Schalkenbach Foundation, New YorkInternational Union for Land Value Taxation, LondonInternational Journal of Transdisciplinary Research The cost of compliance, evasion, and corruption in the collection of taxes is...
By Dr. Justin Robins, Vice Chair Labour Land Campaign, Letter to the Editor in The Guardian Sam Bowman (The big idea: could fixing housing fix everything else, too?, 17 January) is quite right in...
By Charles Avila STATEMENT OF CHARLES AVILA, CHAIRMAN OF THE LAY SOCIETY (LSSAJ LAY SOCIETY OF SAINT ARNOLD JANSSEN) ON MAY 27, 2018 REGARDING THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY ON EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS Authority must enact and...
By H. William Batt Real tax reform could do away with those taxes that are resented by the large proportion of our population. We could replace all taxes on wages and on interest by...
By H. William Batt Three arguments for the application of site value taxation are normally offered in contemporary political discussion. It addresses the problems of 1) the burdensome structure of current taxes, whether on...