Papers

The Seven Roads document argues the case for Asset-based taxation and outlines how it could work in practice

Seven Roads to Asset Based Taxation

 

Covid-19

Not directly linked to Asset Based Taxation, but in response to the Covid-19 outbreak I sent this to idea to government in the UK.  Three days later, the chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the government’s Job Retention Scheme

Temporary Retrenchment Scheme

 

This open letter argues for the artificial circulation of money to limit economic contagion

Advice to the Chancellor

 

A letter to the Shadow Chancellor urging her to oppose the government’s rush to return and argue instead for a sustainable hibernate-and-circulate strategy until such time as there are genuine solutions to the epidemic

Letter to Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds

 

This paper examines how using the wrong concepts gets in the way of finding the best solution both in respect of Covid-19 and the environmental crisis

Conceptual straitjackets

 

Hibernate and Circulate

Outlining the Hibernate and Circulate concept

Hibernate and Circulate

 

How a hibernate and circulate strategy would work under ABT

Covid-19 response under ABT

 

Calculating what it would all cost

Life Support Supplement