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Rent & the Surplus

The core Georgist concept: economic rent as the unearned surplus, distinct from wages and interest.

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Economics 4 MIN

Jeffery J. Smith’s Law of Prime Rent

By Jeffery J. Smith
Economics 5 MIN

Trickle-Down Economics

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 MIN

Trickle Up? Trickle Down? Or Should Surplus Trickle Out?

By Jeffery J. Smith
Economics 4 MIN

The Shape of Rent

By Jeffery J. Smith
Economics 8 MIN

An Open Letter to Transition Towns

By Martin Adams
Economics 1 MIN

The Corruption of Economics

By Martin Adams
Economics 4 MIN

Corporations Aren’t Dysfunctional—the System Is

By Martin Adams
Economics 2 MIN

What Car Stacks in New York Reveal

By Phil J. Anderson
Economics 3 MIN

Real Capitalism?

By Martin Adams
Economics 3 MIN

Profits are People

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 4 MIN

Land and Labor in a World of Robots

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 MIN

The Hidden Key to a New Paradigm Economy

By Martin Adams