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The Henry George Program Mark Mollineaux
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4.8 • 30 Ratings
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Dedicated to exploring several forgotten economic ideas. Can they solve modern problems? The housing crisis in the Bay Area and beyond, economic stagnation, widening wealth inequality, environmental degradation―can Henry George's ideas offer a path forward that unfettered capitalism and incremental socialism lack? Interviews, roundtable discussions, and debates.
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Marc-William Palen on Free Trade and Left-Wing Thought
Marc-William Palen is a historian and author of "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World"; he's on the show to discuss how free trade was once not the purview of neoliberals and free-traders, but rather a varied group of left-wing ideologues, from pacifists to georgists to feminists, and how these strains influenced key aspects of super-national institution-building, but foundered against the cold war and American hegemony. What can we learn as the modern GOP invokes McKinley-era tariffs as a new model?
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Understanding the Anti-YIMBYs & Anti-Georgists, with Stephen Hoskins
Stephen Hoskins is on for a round of meta-discourse, as we try to classify and understand the many flavors of anti-yimbyism and anti-georgism for all corners for the ideological spectrum. With some discussion on New Zealand housing, and more‒
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Christopher England on Georgist Reformers vs “The Interests”
Christopher England is the author of "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism", a history of the land reform movement in the time of Henry George and after‒today on the program, we talk about the contours of the political strategy and history covered in this text, in particular the make-or-break years of 1900-1920. How were "the interests" addressed, and what lessons does this have for us today?
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Housing Element Deep Dive, with Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke from East Bay for Everyone is here to talk about the latest in Housing Elements; we get into the weeds on how different jurisdictions have complied and struggled against the process, get into details on quantifying fair housing standards, talk about land value, and of course get into Builder's Remedy (which Kevin wrote about in the SF Chron in 2022.
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Anti-Slum Reformers (History, Ideology, Politics): the Cincinnati experience, with Robert Fairbanks
Robert Fairbanks is here to talk about his 1988 book, "Making Better Citizens: Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1890-1960"; we discuss the rise of the anti-slum movement, how it evolved from decade to decade owing to different ideological and political shifts, and how it resulted in wide-scale urban renewal and the displacement of countless residents. The environment here is Cincinnati, but with fairly universal relevance.
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Rohin Ghosh on DC, Tenant Movements, Democracy
Rohin Ghosh has moved on to school in DC, and has been keeping busy by acquiring public office (!); he informs us all about how DC's ANCs work, as well as larger dynamics of housing in our nation's capital. Also talk on tenant organizing, as well what this means for democracy more generally.
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One of the best
Excellent discussions on the most important economic issue the world faces today. Cannot recommend enough!
Amazing job, but include more context please!
Host and guests are very informative! I would love it if there was more of an effort to explain acronyms and offer some more context to each episode and not assume listeners are as familiar with the subject matter, especially because conversation often centers around local California issues and this show is super relevant to other places as well. I want as many people to listen as possible! Thanks for your hard work!
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I don’t even know how I stumbled upon this podcast but I’m sure glad I did! Great podcast to narrate the California YIMBY movement. Love it!