This article is a part of the room: Fight club
Our “fight” is about the need for structural reform BEYOND the good Saint-Simonian policy of taxing inherited wealth and progressive taxation of income and wealth. We focus on the need for a debt writedown, and also distinguish between taxing earned income and unearned economic rent – the 19th-century classical aim of value, price and rent theory as a guide to tax policy. As an extension of this theory, we emphasize the need to de-privatize natural monopolies, returning them to the public domain so as to provide basic needs at subsidized prices.
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How fantastic it would be if someone would take on Michel Foucault!
And, of course, Jared Diamond and Frances Fukuyama.
