HeyJaredAlexander Schilcher
Accounting student. Economics lover. Social critic. Realist means to prosperous ends.
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Zero to Sixty Thousand (opens the original)
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Let us imagine a new country that were to spontaneously arise. An island nation with nothing on it but arable land and a population. No resources beyond the land itself and the factors making it arable. Let us also assume that there is no country intent on conquering that new island nation and that the population has no knowledge of anything except for speaking a known language, general knowledge equal to a US high school equivalency, and knowing economics. How would these people choose to devel
Implications of George's Law of Progress (opens the original)
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There is a very underrated and under-discussed aspect of Henry George’s “Progress and Poverty” in Book 10: “The Law of Human Progress”. In it, Henry George seeks to explain the mechanism behind human progress and regress, as well as its implications. While “Progress and Poverty” is mainly remembered for its fervent defence of the common property in land and its practical expression in the land value tax, this may actually be the more central idea, as the LVT merely serves as a vessel through whi
A new paradigm for welfare (opens the original)
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Disclaimer: this is an earlier work of mine that I publish due to high demand. My views have been slightly refined since. Subscribe nowA new paradigm for welfareWelfare has long been a contentious topic on which no consensus could be found. It is often treated as having contradictory desirability criteria that can’t all be fulfilled. I believe this conclusion to be erroneous. At least as long as someone believes two very common opinions on welfare, namely that some form of state support for t
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