The Geonomist Volume Nine Issue Three

Geonomics is … not a panacea, but like John Muir said, "pull on any one thing, and find it connected to everything else." Recall last month's earthquake in El Salvador. We felt it and its formidable after-shocks in Nicaragua. Immediately afterwards, my host nation, one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, sent aid to its Central American neighbor. The Nica newspapers carried photos of the devastation. They showed that the cliff sides that crumbled had had homes built on them while the cliffs left pristine withstood the shock. Could monopoly of good, safe, flat land be pushing people to build on risky, unstable cliffs? If so, that's just one more good reason to break up land monopoly. What works to break up land monopoly, history shows, is for society to collect the annual rental value of the underlying sites and resources. That'd spur owners to use level land efficiently, so no one would be excluded, forced to resort to cliffs. To prevent another man-induced landslide is yet another reason to spread geonomics.

Good news, bad news. The bad news is the politicians running Pittsburgh, America's flagship geonomic city (til now, taxing sites six times higher than buildings), have decided to replace their two rates with one same one on both land and human-made improvements. Once that backfires, as it has in Johannesburg (South Africa), maybe they'll go back to what had made the Steel City America's safest and most affordable of any major metropolitan area. The good news is that there's a bill sailing thru the Virginia legislature that would make Jefferson's home state the second after Pennsylvania to permit localities to tax buildings and locations at different rates. Fairfax, a pleasant city outside Washington, DC, is leading the charge. Lord knows cities like Richmond and Newport News could sure use the shot in the arm that shifting their property tax would give them. (The Georgist News)

Sometimes we must choose our poison, other times we can eat our cake and keep it, too. Some see modern living as economy vs. ecosystem, but that's a false dilemma, another study shows. Here 160 firms and farms saved more than $55 million a year by using energy more efficiently, reducing waste, saving water and taking other steps. So if government busied itself with defending our right to a healthy environment - by charging land dues, holding ecology security deposits, requiring restoration insurance, auctioning off emission permits, and fining the negligent - our elected leaders would actually be pushing business, like it or not, into higher profits. "We found that sustainability practices are often just plain good business," said Bob Doppelt, director of the Ctr for Watershed and Community Health, a research institute affiliated with Portland State University. www.upa.pdx.edu/CWCH/ (Orgnian, Dec 15)

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is making noises about paying Canadians a guaranteed annual income, a reform that once a decade pops up in Canadian politics. Another head of state, US President Nixon, once suggested (after Milton Friedman) something similar, a negative income tax. The Canadian Province of Alberta already pays families a slice of oil royalty, as does the US State of Alaska. Chretien's social salary would merge the federal child benefit, welfare, employment insurance, and old age pension programs. Wary of losing future funding for this income supplement (wouldn't be the first time), the provinces would likely demand a locked-in source of perpetual funding. (Ottawa Citizen, 2000 Dec 9) Were they to look beneath their feet, they'd find it. The value of all sites and resources is enough for an immodestly hefty payment.

If the working middleclass had to buy their own home today, more of them could not do it. This at a time when the greatest percentage of American families, a little over two thirds, are buying or own a home. (USA Today, Feb 7) In Taiwan, almost fourth fifths of families own their home - and paid cash, avoiding the crushing debt.

Because buying homes in the US consumes so much credit, a front-page article of the Wall St Journal wonders if the people who need help to buy a home should be in this game. Perhaps subsidies to FannieMae and FreddieMac, two federally backed corporations that buy the riskier low-end mortgages from lenders, should be cut - especially since "low-end" can be as high as $275,000. This, and tax breaks like it, help sway the wealthy to sink funds into second, even third, homes. While noting that the federal insurance of deposits is a subsidy to lenders, not to savers, the article claimed the deduction of mortgage interest from taxes, worth $55 billion annually, is a subsidy to borrowers, not lenders. (WSJ, Jan 22)

Actually, bigger deductions are made up by higher rates and inflation, so it's a bit like robbing Peter to pay Paul. And without that deduction, lenders would have to lower their rates to maintain the same amount of business. More to the point, if high-priced housing absorbs too much capital, lower the price. Take taxes off buildings. And separate the price of the building from the cost of the land. Land value is the factor that's inflating. If landowners had to pay land rent to their community, land would be that much less sellable and spendy. To afford the land dues, owners who were speculating would develop their under-used sites, adding to the stock of housing, again lowering its price. And since land dues would be paid monthly or yearly, owners could afford it without having to borrow. There'd be plenty of capital for real enterprise, and plenty of affordable housing for all.

Cities don't sprawl because they need room to grow. Room they got, and plenty of it. In the US's fourth biggest city, one out of ten parcels are either outright vacant or have an abandoned building on it. And that does not count the sites in Philadelphia that are poorly used, supporting a shack where there should be a townhouse. Dr. Dennis Culhane, associate professor in the School of Social Work, co-director of Penn's Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, notes, "The homeless tend to come from neighborhoods not only where there's the most abandoned housing but where there is the most crowded housing. You have empty houses next to crowded houses. People in the crowded houses can't afford the empty house next door The landlord can't charge enough to pay the taxes, and to repair the property." One thing in that scenario under the direct control of policymakers is taxes. De-tax homes, make them affordable. (Gazetteer, Jan/Feb 2001, thanks R L Biddle)

While some people wouldn't trust the market as far as they could throw it, others respect its power and try to harness it to do good. Some environmental economists have persuaded the US to grant industry a limited number of emission permits which they can trade among themselves. To avoid emitting more than permitted, companies either buy clean technology or more permits from non-polluters. So far, the US has issued such permits to sulfur emitters. Between 1995 and 1999, sulfur emissions did not even reach 80% of the amount allowed. Now the US is considering granting carbon permits. Yet should not the polluter pay? Rather than give away the permit for free, why not auction it off? Better than a fine or tax or set fee, raking bids would charge industry before they pollute and let them decide how to reduce their emission. Auctions even let environmental groups bid on permits. An auction could raise $100 to $500 billion each year for carbon permits alone. Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions suggests using one quarter of that in towns dependent on oil and coal to ease the transition to a clean economy and three quarters to fund a dividend which could be as much as $800 per American per year, a la the CED Sky Trust (next). (Christian Sci Monitor, Nov 24)

The key feature of geonomics is the proposal of an extra income called a social salary or citizens dividend or natural heritage share. Versions of it exist in oil-rich places and more groups are touting their own version. The Corporation for Enterprise Development has its Sky Trust Initiative. This would pay citizens a check drawn from funds collected from corporations who use the atmosphere as a sink. You play, you pay. (CED, 777 N. Capitol St. NE, Washington DC 20002. skytrust@cfed.org, or visit www.skytrust.cfed.org)

The Utne Reader, in listing Pittsburgh among its "Ten Most Underrated Towns in America", noted that the city's "unique tax system, inspired by 19th-century economic theorist Henry George, assesses land at a higher rate than buildings, thus encouraging historic preservation, discouraging downtown parking lots, and reducing sprawl." So that's why geonomists rave about it! (The Georgist News Jan 15, via Alanna Hartzok.

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance writes: "Can a land tax reduce sprawl and strengthen urban economies? The evidence is persuasive though not conclusive. Political economist Henry George first proposed a land value tax over 100 years ago, as a way to eliminate land speculation and make more land available for production." http://newrules.org/environment/landtax.html
1313 Fifth St SE Minneapolis, MN 55414; tel: 612-379-3815; fax: 612-379-3920 http://www.ilsr.org/

The Green Party of British Columbia leader, Tom Hetherington, in spring 2000 said, "Our tax shift program is built on five points: by taxing pollution we would scrap small business taxes; by taxing resource consumption we would slash income tax; by taxing land values we would control urban sprawl; by taxing high energy draw development projects we would encourage sustainable town centers; by taxing automobile use we would ease grid lock and encourage public transit." http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/ Email editor@greenparty.bc.ca

Eben Fodor in his Better Not Bigger (1999), while focusing on how subsidies pave the way for sprawl, among his remedies lists several taxes including (p. 130): "a land tax can be used in urban areas to encourage density and discourage sprawl. By taxing land rather than buildings, there is an incentive to develop each parcel of urban land to its fullest potential." If a jurisdiction does that, many other remedies may not be needed, since collecting land rent de-motivates growth. As Fodor noted earlier (p. 30): "The engine of the growth machine is powered by the fortunes resulting from land speculation and real estate development."

Alternatives to Growth Oregon's President writes in their "25 Actions to End Growth in Oregon" (2000 Aug) among other excellent ideas: "6. Shift the property tax on land and improvements to a tax only on land." AGO, 520 SW 6th Av, Ste 930, Portland OR 97204-1513. Michael Armstrong, Policy Analyst for Portland's Energy Office, wrote (Jan 24), "Thanks for your message and for coming in yesterday. I appreciate your ideas and support, and I'll float the property tax shift wherever I can."

National Wildlife Federation, concluding from a long list of "whereases" resolved at its Annual Meeting assembled March 16-18, 2000, in Seattle, Washington, to "support the concept of Environmental Tax Shifting as a potentially useful tool to discourage activities that contribute to climate change, degradation of wildlife habitat, and pollution of the land, water, and air" and to urge federal and state governments to adopt it. Over a decade ago, they had also lined up against harmful subsidies. at (800) 822-9919.

Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a coalition that includes ISLR (above) promotes the green tax shift in general, notes its power to curb sprawl, but des not specifically support the green Property Tax Shift. me3.org/projects/greentax/

The Environmental League of Massachusetts, where lots of info can be found, is in the same boat as ME3 (above). James R. Gomes, President; 14 Beacon St, Ste 714, Boston, MA 02108; (617) 742-2553; fax: (617) 742-9656; elm@environmentalleague.org

The Environmental Taxation Worldwide Website, maintained by academics, keeps track of progress on this front. Please submit information on Environmental Tax Legislation at the state level to Prof. Julie A. Lockhart, Department of Accounting, Western Washington U, Bellingham, WA 98225. www.greentaxes.org/ Prof. Larry Kreiser, Dept Accounting, Cleveland State U, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-3610; (216) 687-2081; Fax: (216) 687-9212; l.kreiser@popmail.csuohio.edu

Most of the above come from one of the Banneker Center's amazing sites, progress.org/banneker/shift.html Now that totals 120 notable greens who support the intellectual legacy of Henry George. To see the others, visit our website or order a copy.

In ancient China, a contemporary of Confucius, the philosopher Mencius said: "2A:5 Respect the worthy and employ the capable; put talented people in key positions, then all the shih of the realm will be pleased and will want to be members of your court. In the market places, charge land-rent, but don't tax the goods; or make concise regulations and don't even charge rent. Do this, and all the merchants in the realm will be pleased, and will want to set up shop in your markets. At the borders, make inspections but don't charge tariffs, then all the travelers in the realm will be pleased and will want to traverse your highways. If the farmers merely have to help each other with the government fields, and do not have to pay an additional tax, then all the farmers in the realm will be pleased, and will want to till your fields. If you do not charge fines to the unemployed in your marketplaces, then all the people in the realm will be pleased, and will want to become your subjects. If you are really able to put these five points into practice, then the people from the neighboring states will look up to you as a parent. Now, there has never been a case of someone being able to consistently succeed in making children attack their own parents. This being the case, you will have no enemies in the realm. The one who has no enemies in the realm is the vicegerent of Heaven. There is no case of one who attained to this level, and who did not attain to true kingship." A new translation by Charles Muller. www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/contao/ Thanks to sharp-eyed Tom Sherrard.

Subtitled: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto, was reviewed by David Binns who reports that the process for an entrepreneur to become legal in Peru took more than 300 days, working six hours a day. To acquire legal title to a home took 728 bureaucratic steps, and that was to get approval from only one of eleven government agencies involved! Similar hurdles were found in other developing countries. (See Mencius above.) Binns quotes de Soto:

In a "world where ownership of assets is difficult to trace and validate and is governed by no legally recognizable set of rules; where the assets' potentially useful economic attributes have not been described or organized; where they cannot be used to obtain surplus value through multiple transactions because their unfixed nature and uncertainty leave too much room for misunderstanding, faulty recollection, and reversal of agreement," how can people prosper? The extralegal sectors in the developing world account for 50% to 75% of all working people and are responsible for 1/5 to more than 2/3 of the total economic output of the Third World. In Mexico, an estimated 28% to 39% of GDP is generated by the extralegal informal sector.

De Soto 'figures that "the total value of the real estate held but not legally owned by the poor of the Third World and former communist nations is at least $9.3 trillion." He adds that "in most countries we have surveyed, the value of extralegal real estate alone is many times greater than total savings and time deposits in commercial banks, the value of companies registered in local stock exchanges, all foreign direct investment, and all public enterprises privatized and to be privatized all put together." The challenge is not to redistribute wealth from the First World to the Third World, but to integrate the wealth that already exists in the Third World - and is already widely spread among the population - into the formal legal systems and thereby into the global economy at large. (David Binns via Dan Bell ) http://www.fed.org/onlinemag/jan01/reviews.htm

Subtitled "Citizen Policies and the Pursuit of Happiness", author Steven Shafarman replies to last issue's review: "Glad you appreciated the use of Korzybski. But to totally skip the substance of the book? Unless we can arouse masses of people, we'll never succeed in any substantive reform. That's why I put Citizen Dividends front and center. When everyone has greater economic security - and many people today have no economic security - it will be possible to have much more serious, reasoned discussion about taxes, social justice, environmental policies, etc. Currently, the discourse is so dominated by corporations and the very rich that most others are silenced. I wrote the book to start a movement, to appeal to the greatest number of people from the broadest range of backgrounds and interests. (And perhaps your screenplay will provide the infotainment spark that sets off the Second American Revolution.)" Steve's right. To order a copy, write shafarman@earthlink.net

The director of the Henry George School of Chicago, Chuck Metalitz, quoted the last issue: "Given the synergies of no taxes on effort and no subsidies under waste, then one's Citizens Dividend would be $1000 per month, $2000 per couple." Then Chuck adds: "I bet in the next issue you'll explain how this is calculated."

OK. Mind you, the US Government does not keep track of rent, of the money we spend on the nature we use, the way it keeps track of wages, the money we spend on labor, or investments, the money we spend on tangible capital (anyone know why?). So, looking at numbers from the Census, Dept of Interior, and the Federal Reserve, and at guesses by Drs. Steven Cord, Ronald Banks, and Michael Hudson, for the annual values of all sites, resources, broadcast/band spectrum, etc, I get about two and a half trillion.

That's enough to run our governments from local to federal. But do we want to run them the way we have? I don't, and redirect a trillion from current programs to the CD. The number of people here eligible (tenured, out of jail, registered to vote, etc) is an eighth billion. Divide a trillion by those eligible is $8,000 per year.

Now, eliminating taxes eliminates the collateral damage of taxes, letting economies operate efficiently, which pumps up site values. Eliminating subsidies has the same effect. So does collecting rent spur better use of land, swelling its value. Tideman and Plaschmann see the economy expanding by well over a trillion dollars post-taxes. I peg half that showing up in higher land values, which would get the CD up to $12,000 annually, or $1000/mnth, or $2000/couple. That's for starters.

The director of the Simple Society, John Watkins, writes: "I can't think of an alternative to having the government as the people's agent for collecting the land-rent or dues. But, the only analogs I can think of now are the logging, grazing, and oil-drilling fees for permitting those activities on public lands. It is often charged that the public does not get its 'due.' How do we assure fairness?" How to make government a true steward? For starters, deprive the state of the power to tax, so if it ignores rents, it can't turn to wages, etc. Also, keep the books 100% open. We got the watchdog groups and whistle-blowers. What we need is to ban private finance of elections - call it what it is, bribery - and institute public financing. And pay that social salary, that citizens dividend (CD), that natural heritage share; then the people will demand a proper accounting.

"Since most dues will be charged for land that exists within the "boundaries: of more than one governmental entity, how is the dues process administered?"

By the Intimacy Principle. The more intimate the use of land, the more intimate level of government collects its rent. E.g., land used for homes would be "taxed" ("dued"?) by the city or county. Geo-synchronous orbits would be leased by the UN. Highest and best use?

"Since I left Chicago, I have felt stuck in some sort of non-action mode; and I'm finally fed up with not doing anything. I'm working on an essay concerning growth in Colorado. My idea is to apply geonomics to the debate. I have read most of your articles. Obviously, in a metro area, vacant lots and flattop parking lots are inefficient uses of land. What is the proper mix of commercial and residential land use in a metro area? Also, Clinton put some land in Moffat County out of use. Ranchers are unhappy because they use this land for grazing. Is Clinton's move an efficient use of land?" - Tim Plamondon

The mix of uses should turn out to be proper when owners pay for the land they take. Where density and traffic are great, there cost is high and the logical use is commercial. Using such sites intensely means other land need not be used at all. As for ranching, what Clinton should've done is ended subsidies to ranchers (and everyone else, too) in the form of cheap leases, free feed for hard times, etc, and required protection of streams from cow turds. Collect the rent and charge for burdening the ecosystem, and the question of how much land for which use (and non use) pretty much takes care of itself. And in the rare cases when it wouldn't, we'd still have political tools like zoning, etc.

"Has anyone done an analysis of the value of the split-rate property tax in a fast growing western community (such as resort region that includes Aspen and Vail)? Has anyone looked into the impact the split-rate PT might have on encouraging more efficient land use and more affordable housing in such communities?" - Colin Laird, Healthy Mountain Communities

"Saw your Carfree Times article. We're fighting the funding of a parking deck here and need help. It's to be backed by a general obligation bond, but what if the darned thing doesn't pay for itself? You know anyone who can help with this?" - Ann Rogers, Traverse City

Feeling useless is frustrating, but the answer to both is "no". We as a movement are way behind and need all the help we can get - money, volunteers, media coverage

Cut taxes a lot, Bush says. Cut taxes a little, Congress says. Or, cut taxes completely and replace them with dues to collect rents, we say. The values that individuals create, society has no legitimate claim to. Nor does society need the money that belongs to others. As a group, we have our own source of income, the values that society creates. These are the values that attach to land, both sites and resources. When population grows, land rises in value. When technology progresses, it swells the value of a Silicon Valley. Where oil is discovered, there land values rise. Where peace is declared, again, sites appreciate. Were Bush and Congress to collect all the annual rental value of sites, resources, the broadcast spectrum, etc, government could forgo taxes upon sales, salaries, savings, and structures, and settle the issue of the best tax rate once and for all - it's zero.

Carfree Times #17 ran "Mass Traffic and Metro Transit" as a Guest Editorial . Reader Bill Volk said, "Nice article. I hope that we start to move in this direction. As a start, banning cars from larger sections of downtown and building smaller, carless towns might be very attractive."

In Nicaragua's capital, Managua, one of the two main dailies, El Nuevo Diario, printed our article, "Un Modelo Exitoso". In Brazil at the World Social Forum, Community Radio interviewed us. Alan Lewis touts our website to the chat list of the Michigan Greens. Australia's magazine Progress cited our bibliography of academic journal articles on how the Property Tax Shift impacts urban settlement. And The Henry George News reprinted our "Land-Use and Markets" that first appeared in the University of Southern California's journal, Planning and Markets.

Tea Nommann, Assistant Professor, Concordia International University, Estonia (Feb 13): "My article about the property tax was published last Thursday in our Business Daily. Some weeks ago it was again in the newspaper that soon politicians will start discussing about the property tax. I feel that current city authority, at least the management, is rather open to innovations and changes or at least new ideas. And I do have some personal contacts there also."

In January in Nicaragua, presented to the staff of various presidential candidates and to the director of the cadastre of Managua. At the World Social Forum in Brazil's Porto Alegre (the city that determines its budget in town hall meetings), presented amid 5,000 scurrying delegates. Other than that lone workshop on geonomics, there was nothing on how capitalists accumulate wealth - privatize society's gains and socialize private costs. The modus operandi of accumulation is the control of rent and of public revenue. Every entity that the Forum criticized, from the World Bank to the multinationals for whom corporate welfare worldwide totals $1.5 trillion each year, is engrossed by subsidy.

Mark Twain would have loved it. Like most political/religious gatherings, the WSF abounded in contradiction. A diatribe against technology was interrupted by the speaker's cell phone. After demanding equality for all, speakers retired to the guarded VIP room for those more equal than the rest. Smokers forced everyone to inhale their toxic exhale, lighting up Marlboros (made in the USA) beneath "no smoking" signs. Between speeches, the anti-marketeers flocked to the temporary market of booths outside the conference hall selling food, crafts, and anti-trade T-shirts to take back to their homelands. While complaining about being treated as a sex object, the lady stalked about in her black, transparent mini-skirt (I had a hard time following her speech, trying to make out the wording on her garment's label). For a complete report, see progress.org. Presentations were made possible by funding from New York's Schalkenbach Foundation, the Earth Rights Institute, and the School of Living. Thanks, all.

Ernest Callenbach, (Dec 13): "Lots of good stuff in this latest Geonomist. Do you know anything about the Social Credit ideas that motivate the Alberta government? Some people seem to think they are kind of fascist, but a recent very brief visit showed it to be a generally prosperous province - I was told on the strength of an oil and gas boom. But certainly both Calgary and Edmonton are large, impressive (sprawl-dominated) cities." Ah, another chance to show off my ignorance. All I know about Social Credit could fill a matchbook. That is, the government issues new money into circulation by paying it to citizens directly. Something similar, the government of Alberta pays a portion of oil royalty back to residents.

Gene Denardo, Portland hypothecator (Jan 11): "The problem with gentrification has little to do with the gentrification. How can an area that was run down and is finally being renewed and filled with people who really like and care about where they live be a problem? I see the problem as one of ownership. With ownership there is no displacement. Or the displacement is one of choice. Anything done to foster ownership is beneficial to everyone. Another common thought is that gentrification produces price increases. Yet if all of Portland were in great shape, the supply of good houses and great neighborhoods would be so large that the price should actually fall. We should get rid of the federal depreciation deduction for single-family residences. This is a prime incentive for landlords to own houses as rentals. Also if we could get local governments to stop giving large corporations property tax breaks, this would slow the migration to our area and also lower property taxes for the rest of us. A land tax would be best of all."

Joe Huston, poet med student (Dec 11): "Wow! what a great newsletter! Good job at editing." Thanks for the diagnosis.

Ben Sevack, Montreal business owner (Dec 12): "Congratulations of your e-newsletter. Muy buen hecho."

Sue & Scott Walton, Chicago meeting planner (Nov 30): "You did not look up when you went to downtown Des Moines; if you had, you would have seen stores on the second or third level of buildings connected to the city's skywalk system. The action's is booming on the upper levels." It's over my head.

Rhea Connors, Program Manager, Northwest Environment Watch (Feb 8): "Please help us fill the positions of Research Director and Research Associates. Apply yourself or pass it on! www.northwestwatch.org"

Paul Martin, Director, Instituto Henry George (Feb 22): "We just signed our contract for the new weekly "Comprender La Economia" radio show on the university FM station. I had a follow-up interview with the cadastre people and its green light for the study from their POV. You are just right for this work. Your energy was a great boost. Everybody is still talking about you. You need to get your ass back here to Managua where the cutting edge is happening."

Conference invitations include: Environmental Taxation in April at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, North American Society of Environmental Economists in June in Duluth, Regional People's Assembly in June in San Francisco, and East Asian Transportation Specialists in Vietnam in October. Given the funding, we'll make them all.

The Urban Land Institute's new book, Smart Growth Tool Kit, put together by David O'Neill, lacks the Property Tax Shift (the shift of the tax burden from buildings to locations), which is about the smartest way to manage growth. According to ULI's Rick Davis, next year's model of the Tool Kit will include this basic tool. In that case, buy next year's book.

For ordering literature, thanks to Papa G, the father of Ska (Jan 11): "I would like to purchase a subscription to The Geonomist, and I would like to purchase a set of back issues. How much?" By my count, which is close to fallible, 28 issues preceded this one. So, let's do it for $56. For a list of 50 booklets for sale, just ask. For joining and rejoining, thanks again to Mike Curtis, Director of Philadelphia's Henry George School (in the historical landmark of the Henry George birthplace) who directed me to use the funds on beer (if only he'd sent more than a hundred!), Jacob B. Himmelstein (Pennsylvania money-manager) for staying as a stalwart, Ben Russell (91 year old sustainer and geonomics teacher with a regular column at americannon conformist.com, born on the same day as yours truly), and Greg Young of Missouri (who has been shown). Also, huge thanks to the kind wise ones at the Schalkenbach Fdn for sending me to fascinating places and bringing me home again.

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THE GEONOMIST

Vol. 9, No. 3
Editor: Jeffery J. Smith

THE GEONOMIST

Vol. 9, No. 3 Editor: Jeffery J. Smith

Vol. 9, No. 3
Editor: Jeffery J. Smith