Month: April 2020

A chat with Roger Sandilands, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Strathclyde, with a final comment by economist and author Fred Harrison. SLRG: We describe economic rent as the rent of land and natural resources. This Economics

Simple really. The long project by land owners to untax land and natural resources transforms these assets into financial instruments. Competing for control of these rent-yielding assets (land speculation) increases their price many times over.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/after-the-crisis-we-need-to-create-jobs-not-a-tax-on-wealth-zxnv5qlfb SLRG’s director writes in The Times Thunderer column, 13 April 2020. After the pandemic, the last thing we need is a return to ‘business as usual’. A new start – to fund rather than

Scots need no longer accept the grinding ‘norm’ as inevitable. They can choose a proper new start: escape from starved public services, unsustainable private and government debt, homelessness, suppressed enterprise, low wages and an abused