Democracy, Earth Rights, and the Next Economy

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.

It is only in recent human history that land has been enclosed and the rights of use given to a few people, as opposed to a whole community. Alanna Hartzok points out that individual equality, even in a democracy, cannot exist without equal rights to the abundance of the earth. She presents solutions that have been successful in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, including restructuring taxes so that land value, a communal asset, is taxed instead of wages or buildings.