A knowledge platform for the next economy. Now available to the public with reports on basic income, codetermination, and land value taxes.

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1/ The Library of Economic Possibility (LEP) is now live 🥳 Our mission is to advance public knowledge of innovative economic ideas for a thriving 21st century economy. economicpossibility.org
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How land value tax (a tax *cut* on buildings) creates a virtuous cycle of development, reducing the price of both land and housing. …and how it can pair with inclusionary zoning to create even more affordable housing.
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You might know how land value tax could address the housing crisis, or how inclusionary zoning creates affordable housing. But something unique happens when you combine the two. A Policy Alchemy for the Housing Crisis kaseyklimes.com/notes/2023/1…
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📣 come hear the good news
The wealth of a typical American household is way up since the pandemic. Inequality is down. Debt-to-income ratios are falling. Racial gaps, education gaps, urban-rural gaps, and age gaps have decreased. noahpinion.blog/p/great-news… 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🥳🥳🥳
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TIL Minnesota has introduced a land value tax bill. Not sure how likely it is to pass, but Minneapolis might become America's first housing utopia with LVT and a single family zoning ban.
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Let 1,000 economic policy research databases bloom! If you're looking for available datasets, @lenorepalladino's list here is a great resource. If you're looking for insights about a particular policy or topic (or a combo of both), we hope our site provides a useful tool
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Let 1,000 economic policy research databases bloom! If you're looking for available datasets, @lenorepalladino's list here is a great resource. If you're looking for insights about a particular policy or topic (or a combo of both), we hope our site provides a useful tool
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We need more experiments, and the public agrees! xitter.cf/JohnHolbein1/status/17…
Does the public hate experiments? No! "We find that 75% support the idea of small-scale evaluations of policies before enacting them at a large scale." Experimentally varying whether the evaluations are called "experiments" has zero effect on public support of experimentation
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Another basic income experiment is in the works in St Louis. 👀 xitter.cf/saintlouismayor/status…
Trusting parents like @StocktonDemo participant Tomas to make the BEST financial decisions for their kids works - period! STL Guaranteed Basic Income will give hundreds of St. Louis families the financial stability they need to grow and thrive with $500/month direct payments ⬇️
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One thing about the expanded child tax credit is that it seemed to work Really Well, & a huge majority of economists agreed: economicpossibility.org/insi…
In 2021, the expanded child tax credit pushed child poverty to the lowest rate on record. Then it expired, & child poverty more than doubled at record pace, like removing a weight from a loaded spring. What if we simply didn't do that? vox.com/future-perfect/2023/…
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Census announces SPM child poverty rate of 12.4% in 2022. Context: from 1967 to 2021, the largest year-over-year increase in SPM child poverty rate was 10.7% (or 2.1 pp, 1980-1981). We now easily have a record increase in child poverty: a 139% increase (or 7.2 pp) from 2021-2022.
holy moly, child poverty rate rose from all-time low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% (!!!) in 2022, reflecting end of temporary child allowance and other programs.
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economicpossibility.org/ site is so cool, content so relevant. Tickles the economist, science fiction writer, info architect and knowledge management nerd in me. @LEPossibility
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Split-rate tax increases development activity as measured by building permits. economicpossibility.org/insi…
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Most economists do not share the hypothetical concern that a UBI would cause high inflation. Source: the @StanfordBIL UBI research visualization. economicpossibility.org/insi…
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Denmark has used land value taxation since 1924. The rate ranges from 0.6 to 2.4% on the land's estimated market value, payable to local authorities/country, and the land value is revalued every two years. economicpossibility.org/insi…
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A revenue-neutral LVT (in a Texas municipality) would decrease average tax liabilities for single-family properties by 30%, shifting them onto commercial & industrial property classes. economicpossibility.org/insi…
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