Rawls and others in Property Owning Democracy argue that a more equal distribution of wealth is a superior alternative to Welfare-State Capitalism, Laissez-faire, State socialism, or Liberal socialism. Unfortunately, the proponents who have tried to implement the wider distribution of property owners use redistribution methods. Another approach is incrementally changing…

The world is awash with wealth, but it is unevenly distributed. It sits in gigantic piles and is being used to destroy the planet to create more wealth that sits in bigger and bigger piles. There is a simple solution to spreading it more evenly, and it comes with a…

Social learning is to ideas what natural selection is to genes. Both are ways of picking out good solutions from a sea of variety. Mark Pagel — Wired for Culture. With culturally appropriate capital allocation rules, Community Capital is the most productive way to invest. It gives the most value…

Standards of Living increase with increased productivity. This article shows that significant productivity increases are available in the Loans and Equity Markets. In these markets, a lack of reciprocity has led to decreased productivity. Although both buyers and sellers contribute to transaction profits, sellers receive all the profits and, as…

Assets not easily converted into cash, such as undeveloped land, long-lasting infrastructure like dams and buildings, and nature parks, are considered "stationary" as their value stays with the asset. However, one way to generate value from these assets is to monetize them by creating a product that…

Build to Rent is gaining popularity among corporations as a way to provide affordable housing. However, there are disadvantages compared to individual homeowners who receive tax advantages not available to corporations. The Build to Rent initiatives appeared designed to give some tax advantages to Corporations. However, corporations enjoy advantages unavailable…

Economic activity is the exchange of goods and services using money as the medium of exchange, the store of value, and the unit of account. Say an exchange transfers goods from party A to party B of value X. Money of the value Y is exchanged where Y = X…

The ACT Government Build to Rent initiative aims to increase the supply of affordable housing. It will achieve a limited supply of new affordable housing, but it will take many years to make a significant difference. …

Summaries of the ideas of Polanyi, Ostrom, Pagel, and Bregman from ChatGPT4 Karl Polanyi — The Great Transformation (1944)- (video) In his renowned work "The Great Transformation" (1944), Karl Polanyi, a Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher, analyzed the limitations of the market economy and suggested alternative solutions. To summarize, Polanyi proposed an alternative model to the market…