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Jeffery J. Smith

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JEFFERY J. SMITH published The Geonomist, which won a California GreenLight Award, has appeared in both the popular press (e.g.,TruthOut) and academic journals (e.g., USC's “Planning and Markets”), been interviewed on radio and TV, lobbied officials, testified before the Russian Duma, conducted research (e.g., for Portland's mass transit agency), and recruited activists and academics to Progress.org. A member of the International Society for Ecological Economics and of Mensa, he lives in Mexico. Jeffery formerly was Chief Editor at Progress.org.

Oil Beneath $0, Exxon Dropped From the Dow

Less Wealthy Oil Companies Signals Breathing Room For the Environment, Yet Can Rentiers Replace Oil Rent With Other Rents?

As the Chinese say, crisis is danger plus opportunity. Now is a once in a lifetime chance to win transformation to a geonomy for everyone.

Protest With a Happy Ending

Protests in so many places, lasting so long, may embolden those in need of an extra income right now to do what it takes to win it.

Back to Work? Or Forward to Justice?

Demanding that everyone work full-time, when it's not possible, and not even necessary given tons of surplus, is nuts. Now's the time to fix that.

If you can stand to read one more article on race, make it this one, lacking the usual accusations and rhetoric, but with a feasible win/win for all.

Police, still, now?

Do police need more crime than already committed? So need to magnify their role? Do they worry prosperity may make them utterly useless?

Communication In Isolation

As we fill the internet, making up for missing face-to-face chatter, is there any signal in all that noise? Something obvious going unsaid? As usual?

Pandemics and Land Dues

History shows how a few places developed their socioeconomic structure from poor to prosperous, which would also help with addressing pandemics.

101+ Famous Thinkers on Owning Earth

While geniuses often disagree, some of our best minds have come to a similar conclusion regarding one of humanity's thorniest problems – how to share land fairly.

Where A Tax Reform Has Worked

28 geonomic case summaries

Geonomics and Immigration

Major media has Americans focusing on immigrants rather than the deepest underlying reasons why anyone would choose to abandon their home.

Bounty: Let Times Square Celebrate a New High

With word re Earth’s worth out there, the first step to a new paradigm is taken.

Bounty: Celebrate Knowing Rent With a Powwow

Already one tribe calculated how much land value owed by the US—and won!

Bounty: $10K Per Month, Free—Is That Insane?

A just economy is not lazy. It’ll bring a future that’s so cushy, like no other.

Bounty: Our Surplus—a Way to Remake the World (part 2 of 2)

The worth of Earth—so, so immense—what if we humans put it to good use?

Bounty: Our Surplus—a Way to Remake the World (part 1 of 2)

The worth of Earth—so, so immense—what if we humans put it to good use?

Bounty: Fund Community With Its Land Rents

Society generates the value of location. What if it harvests its own production?

Bounty: There’s a New Indicator in Town — It's Ground

A number for rent so big explains so much and prepares us for much more.

Bounty: The Greatest Stat on Earth — Its Real Worth

The worth of Earth in America—is it a lump sum or a flow from your budget?

Bounty: People Power to De-classify Deep Data?

In a democracy, citizens have the right to pry out the measure of their own.

Bounty: Movements Find a Piece to Their Puzzle

A good use for rent may inspire some movements to ask what’s the total of rent.

20 Questions to Test Your Geonomic IQ

This test focuses on aspects of the economy that can change as often as daily. The answers can be found at official sites or professional sites that cull the official statistics.

Bounty: Firms Offer a Rent Total—For a Price

Money talks but can it also add up a sum for the worth of Earth in America?

Bounty: If Lowballing Inputs, How Much Is Rent?

Using official figures as are yields a total more palatable but less accurate?

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