This is a rather lengthy post on the causes of the present economic debacle and Hudson's prescriptions for addressing it. He covers a lot of ground in relatively few words and deals in some detail with taxing economic rent — land rent, monopoly rent, and financial rent — in order to discourage the excessive rent-seeking that is stifling production.
Read the while article at Counterpunch
First Steps in Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System
by Michael Hudson
(h/t Kevin Fathi via email)
This post is excellent and should be read in its entirity by everyone.
ReplyDeleteIt's being reposted around. It's on Asia Times Online today.
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