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Earth Rights Articles

Alanna K. Hartzok:

• Economics of War and Peace

• E.F. Schumacher Lecture: Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy

• Land Value Taxation And Resource Rent Approach To Financing For Development (also Spanish; French)

• Financing Local to Global Public Goods: An Integrated Green Tax Shift Perspective

• Green Tax Policy: Financing Local-To-Global Public Goods (includes color brochure in PDF format)

• Earth Rights Democracy -- Land Ethics and Public Finance Policy as if People and Planet Mattered

• Earth Rights Democracy: Public Finance Based On Early Christian Teachings

• Land for People, Not for Profit

• Alaska Permanent Fund: A Model of Resource Rents for Public Investment and Citizen Dividends (winner of McKeever essay contest)

• Citizen Dividends and Oil Resource Rents

• Sharing Our Common Heritage via the Tax Shift Agenda

• Financing Planet Management

• Pennsylvania's Success with Local Property Tax Reform -- The Split Rate Tax

• Pennsylvania Farmers and the Split Rate Tax

• Weaving the Geo Tapestry

  Essays, Reports, Etc.:

• Henry George's "Single Tax" (4/21/2004)

• From Full Spectrum Dominance to Earth Rights Democracy

• O Say Can You See: A Perspective on the Current Crisis

• Women, Earth, and Economic Power

• Who Owns the Earth?

• Welfare or Earthshare? That is the Question!

• Who Would Jesus Tax? -- The Saga of Susan Pace Hamill's Alabama Tax Reform Crusade

• National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College, June 2004 -- Photos of civilian participant, Alanna Hartzok

• Report from the United Nations Habitat II Conference, Istanbul, June 1-14, 1996

• My Letter to a Church

• Hartzok Made Good Showing for Green Party in Penn.

• In the History of Thought: Henry George's "Single Tax"

Gordon Abiama:

• Land and Land Rights: Land economics as a way out of today's economic mess

Steven Cord:

• Empirical Studies for Land Rent Taxation
• The 237 Report
• Ten Alleviations

Herman Daly:

• Sustainable Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies

Gary Davis:

• Ownership of Land and Control of the Earth

Fred Foldvary:

• Peace through Confederal Democracy and Economic Justice

Mason Gaffney:

• New Life in Old Cities

• Tax Reforms Proposed to Promote Saving

• Sounding the Revenue Potential of Land: Fifteen Lost Elements

• Privatizing Land Without Giveaway

• Land Rent in a Tax-free Society

• Testimony on California Severance Tax

• Effect of reserves tax on timing of production

• Tentative Recommendation

• Subsidies to production and consumption of oil and gas

• Timing lease sales

• Upstream Bias in Tax Favors to Extractive Industries

• Types of Lease Payments

• Countervailing Taxation

• How to Tax Mineral Rents

• Mineral rents tax made neutral as to discovery and conservation

Ted Gwartney:

• Estimating Land Values
• A Free Market Strategy to Reduce Sprawl

David Korten:

• Property Rights Versus Living Rights

James Howard Kunstler:

• A Mercifully Brief Chapter on a Frightening, Tedious, But Important Subject

J. Rupert Mason:

• Reflections of a California Banker

Ralph Nader:

• The Decline of Urban Civilization: the Sprawl Years

James Robertson:

• Sharing Our Common Heritage: Resource Taxes and Green Dividends
• Alternative Mansion House Speech

Walt Rybeck:

• What Affordable Housing Problem?

• Have We Forgotten The Foundation?

Héctor Raúl Sandler

• Argentina: Country of the Permanent Crisis

• Unveiling the Mystery: Roots of the Argentinean Crisis

• Develando El Misterio Para El Libro

David Smiley

• Third World Intervention - A New Analysis

Jeffery J. Smith:

• Planning by Markets (Spanish version)

Richard Steiner:

• While we're off fighting terror, the planet's crumbling

• THE COASTAL COALITION: Proposal to Establish a United Nations Global Habitat Conservation Fund

Evaggelos Vallianatos

• Humanity’s Ecological Footprint
• American Cataclysm

R.A. Walker

• California's Golden Road to Riches: Natural Resources and Regional Capitalism, 1848-1940

Stephen Zarlenga

• Removing Structural Injustice From Our Money System

World Bank

• Experiences with Oil Funds: Institutional and Financial Aspects (June 2006)

Earth Rights Africa:

• The Earth Rights Africa Summary Report for the Seminar in Dakar, Senegal [French]

• The Challenges of Democracy and Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Development - Gordon Abiama (Nigeria) [French]

• Towards a New Political, Social and Economic Structure for Africa - Sunny Akuopha (Mali) [French]

• Democracy, Earth Rights and Ecotaxation - Alanna Hartzok (USA) [French]

• Green Politics and the Economics of Sustainable Development - Anne Goeke (USA) [French]

• Environmental Justice, Sustainable Development and the Politics of Public Finance - Dr. Papa Meissa Dieng (Senegal) [French]

Other:

• Land Rights and Land Value Capture

• The Fourth Way

• Gangsters for Capitalism by Clinton L. Cox

• Basic Call to Consciousness - Native Wisdom

• Tax Shift Now! -- Regaining Our Common Wealth (by Tony Vickers)

• Henry George: Antiprotectionist Giant of American Economics (Economic Insights, Volume 10, Number 2, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

• Must try harder - We will never make poverty history until we rip up the tax system (Guardian, 12/3/2005)

• Green Tax Policy from Green Party, Canada 2005

• Fueling Global Warming: Federal Subsidies to Oil in the United States

• Green group would use tax to battle pollution (7/13/2005)

• An Introduction to Georgist Philosophy & Activity

• Why a landlord can not just pass on the cost of LVT to the renter?

• Was The Iraqi Shift To Euro Currency The "Real" Reason For War? (Stephen Zarlenga, American Monetary Institute)

• The Question Of Misery - An Open Letter to Pope John Paul II

• A Sane Economy Is A Compassionate Economy - Address by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane at the South African New Economics Foundation, 25th June 2002

• An International Declaration on Individual and Common Rights To Earth

• Earth Democracy -- Ten Principles of Justice, Sustainability and Peace

• Principles of Environmental Justice

• United Nations HABITAT II Agenda -- Section B, 55 & 56

• The Vancouver Action Plan -- 64 Recommendations for National Action Approved at Habitat: UN Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, Canada (1976)

• Waterperry Declaration (September 2002)

• Istanbul Alternative Declaration

• Robert Schalkenbach Foundation: Books & Pamphlets on Earth Rights, Earthsharing, Economic Justice, Tax Reform & Urban Revival

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