POLITICAL ECONOMY, COMMON RESOURCES AND A NEW GLOBAL SYSTEM
James Robertson
A contribution to the 25th International Conference of the International Union for Land Value Taxation - on "The Economics of Abundance" - London, 4th July 2006
Note. My website -
http://www.jamesrobertson.com - can be searched for detailed back-up and references to other people's work on the wide range of issues touched on in this paper. Particularly relevant items include:(1) "Financial and Monetary Policies for an Enabling State", 2000 – at
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/toes-nef.htm(2) "The Role of Money and Finance: Changing a Central Part of the Problem into a Central Part of the Solution", 2003 – at
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/articles.htm(3) "The Future of Money: If We Want a Better Game of Economic Life, We'll Have to Change the Scoring System", 2005 – at
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/articles.htmINTRODUCTION
I am going to outline various contexts in which we can promote the case for Land Value Taxation. I shall say which I prefer. I hope that it will provoke some thoughts for a future research agenda.
I see the case for Land Value Taxation in a broad national, local and global context.
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