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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.

German State to Recover Society's Land Value

The bigger the benefit, the bigger the battle to win it, yet a German state did take the first step toward an economy for all.

Enough Epidemiology Already

Beating covid is not just what we're told to do or what Big Pharma can do but also what a responsible government must do.

Trust About Covid Who Lied About WMD?

Government has cried wolf before. This time is there really a wolf, come to destroy us?

Guardian Columnist George Monbiot: Land Acts

Tell people that a Guardian columnist whose videos get tens of millions viewers clearly explains geoism in this video.

Getting Results Being Upbeat

Constant, unrelieved criticism debilitates supporters and rallies contraries. Overlooked are ideas that appeal across the political spectrum.

On Nov 3: Ranking Candidates Elects The Best

The polar icecap of politics is breaking up. Both voters and legislators are reforming the electoral process. Then the citizenry’s best values and highest goals can win.

Hamilton, the Mythical Musical

Two worlds house us, one real, the other what we believe. Some few shape both worlds. The rest of trust them or our senses.

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?

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