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Governments around the world are considering taxing red meat like tobacco in an effort to curb climate change

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Sophia Ankel and Jack Derwin, Business Insider Australia image: Flickr/Robert Couse-Baker If taxes were successful at constraining the consumption of meat, there would be a large reduction in carbon emissions. A new report by Fitch Solutions reveals that a “sin tax” currently put on products… Read More »Governments around the world are considering taxing red meat like tobacco in an effort to curb climate change

Universal Basic Income an Economic Vaccine

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Store owners boarding up buildings across Manhattan

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By Luke Funk Published 1 day ago Coronavirus FOX 5 NYimage: Edwin Hooper on Unsplash NEW YORK – A growing scene for those who venture out into the streets of Manhattan these days is boarded up storefronts. From luxury retailers to small bars, establishments that have no idea when they are… Read More »Store owners boarding up buildings across Manhattan

Compensating for Lost Revenue During COVID 19

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by Fred Foldvary and Nicolaus Tideman Governments owe compensation for the losses that individuals and companies incur from the temporary shutdowns that they, these governments, have imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The compensation they owe must be on-going compensation rather than the one-time… Read More »Compensating for Lost Revenue During COVID 19

Plastic Wars: Industry Spent Millions Selling Recycling — To Sell More Plastic

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March 31, 20208:00 AM ET Heard on All Things Considered Laura Sullivan For decades, Americans have been sorting their trash believing that most plastic could be recycled. But the truth is, the vast majority of all plastic produced can’t be or won’t be recycled. In… Read More »Plastic Wars: Industry Spent Millions Selling Recycling — To Sell More Plastic

The Great Adaptation

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They’re now calling this “The Great Adaptation,” which brings to mind “The Great Simplification” described by Jason Bradford (in The Future Is Rural: Food System Adaptations to the Great Simplification); the crisis is described this way as well as by Richard Heinberg (in The Party’s… Read More »The Great Adaptation

COVID-19 factors of production

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the containment measures taken to control it likely will be together the seminal economic events of a generation, surpassing the financial crisis of 2008 and rivaling stagflation in importance. Indeed, unlike 2008 and like stagflation, this crisis is manifesting as a… Read More »COVID-19 factors of production

How the Covid-19 recession could become a depression

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Coronavirus is a global economic catastrophe. By Ezra Klein@ezraklein Mar 23, 2020, 9:20am EDT As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, it’s hard to decide which are scarier: the conversations I’m having with epidemiologists or the conversations I’m having with economists. “This is an economic… Read More »How the Covid-19 recession could become a depression

The Sanders Tax Plan and its Implications Part 2

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WHERE TAXATION IS CONCERNED, CITIZENS WANT FAIRNESS AND ECONOMISTS WANT EFFICIENCY Part 2:Does The Sanders Plan Meet These Tests? By Edward J. Dodson, M.L.A. Changing the way governments at all levels raise revenue to pay for public goods and services will not solve every social,… Read More »The Sanders Tax Plan and its Implications Part 2

RSF’s Policy Response to Coronavirus: An “Economic Vaccine” for the U.S. (version II)

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The idea that the earth belongs to all people, and should provide for all people, lies at the heart of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s mission. As the U.S. finds itself in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic, this foundational idea and a shared recognition of… Read More »RSF’s Policy Response to Coronavirus: An “Economic Vaccine” for the U.S. (version II)

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