Yesim Sayin Taylor / October 21, 2019 The idea of imposing a “land value tax” in the District pops up from time to time. Rick Rybeck at Just Economics has been promoting land value taxes for as far as I could remember. Both the 2013… Read More »Land Value Tax: Can it Work in the District?
The world is being dredged of its natural resources, with much of what we rely on for our livelihoods at risk from a new threat: environmental crime (UNEP-INTERPOL report, 2016). Environmental crimes are widely recognized as among some of the most profitable forms of transnational… Read More »Environmental crimes are on the rise, so are efforts to prevent them
By Divya Singh In recent decades, significant increases in the rent-to-income ratios have worsened the affordability of living in cities across the world. A widely promulgated solution is to build more housing in cities. But if there is an excessive demand for housing in cities,… Read More »Property Tax Incentives for New Housing Spurred Gentrification in New York City
The earth is our common home. Most, if not all, people would agree with this principal statement, at least conceptually and in the abstract. But what could be a comprehensive practical implementation of this principal statement that would be of social and economic benefit to… Read More »The Commons
By Annalisa MerelliJanuary 4, 2020 Picture San Francisco. It has become, in recent years, the epitome of inequality: a city where the tech industry has brought incredible wealth, where the median price for a home is $1.3 million, yet 20% of the households earn just… Read More »US cities are growing more unequal between one another, and that’s bad for the country
Russia has published an action plan to mitigate risks associated with present and future climate change in the country. The report also outlines “positive” effects of changes in the climate. The Russian government has unveiled a plan to adapt the country’s economy and population to… Read More »Russia unveils plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change
It’s a new year, and there are new things in the works at RSF! More specifically, we’ve welcomed some new faces to our team – which in my opinion, is the best way possible to be starting off this new year and new decade. Much… Read More »New Undertakings, New Staff
Imagine living in an indigenous, pre-modern and traditional community such as existed in the Amazon prior to the invasions by Brazilian miners and farmers. Would anyone in such a community be homeless? Of course not. Any capable member of the community would be able to… Read More »Housing Affordability
By Fred Foldvary Two economists at the University of California at Berkeley, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, have written a book, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay. A review by William G. Gale in the Brookings web… Read More »What Do You Know About Taxes? Wrong!
September 26, 20192:12 PM ET Bill Chappell Twitter The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it’s been in the past 50 years — despite the median U.S. income hitting a new record in 2018, according to new data… Read More »U.S. Income Inequality Worsens, Widening To A New Gap
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