List: market equitism | Curated by clay schöntrup

Feb 5, 2025
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poverty in the u.s.a.sure, america is rich. but a lot of people love to argue that this doesn’t really matter when it comes to the quality of life for the…
Feb 5
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Feb 5
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a georgist rationalist constitutionwe, the people of the united states, establish this constitution to secure individual liberty, mutual prosperity, and just governance…
Jan 31
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Jan 31
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the schöntrup index: a more nuanced measure of economic inequalitypronunciation: “shurn-trup” — the ‘ö’ sounds like the ‘u’ in “burn”, and the ‘up’ sounds like “oop” in “troop”
Jan 13
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Jan 13
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land value tax discussion with jeremiah johnsonJeremiah Johnson once commented to me that he felt land value tax (l.v.t.) has not just neutral but negative deadweight loss, in…
Jan 9
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Jan 9
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the gift card fallacy: misunderstanding value in economic transactionsgifts are a cornerstone of human relationships, but when it comes to economics, they can create inefficiencies. this “gift card fallacy”…
Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
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Market Equitism: A New Approach to Freedom and EqualityEconomic inequality is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The gap between the rich and the poor has been widening in many…
Nov 2, 2024
Nov 2, 2024
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Expansionist Free Equitism: A Manifesto for Rational ProgressThe stakes could not be higher. We stand at a crossroads between a future of unprecedented human flourishing and a descent into…
Oct 27, 2024
Oct 27, 2024
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the proportional representation fallacyimagine the simplest conceivable proportional representation scenario. the electorate is divided into 3 equally-sized ideologically…
Jan 13, 2024
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Jan 13, 2024
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new liberalpolitical parties historically suffer from “ideological drift”. they have founding principles, but those become muddled over time. to…
Oct 16, 2023
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Oct 16, 2023
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tax bracketsconsider the following table of tax rates.
Sep 9, 2023
Sep 9, 2023
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ends vs meansi think an under-appreciated distinction in politics is the focus on ends vs means. while people have legitimate disagreements about the…
Jun 24, 2022
Jun 24, 2022
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does a land value tax have zero or negative deadweight loss?i was recently reading the wikipedia article on optimal taxation theory, when i came across an assertion that land value taxes (LVT) have…
Jun 26, 2022
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Jun 26, 2022
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carbon tax vs cap-and-tradein order to compare a carbon tax to cap-and-trade, we must first describe what a negative externality is.
Dec 21, 2022
Dec 21, 2022
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my political platform:
Dec 26, 2022
Dec 26, 2022
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neoliberalism is not classical liberalismneoliberalism and classical liberalism are both ideologies that advocate for limited government intervention in the economy and for the…
Jan 22, 2023
Jan 22, 2023
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cost“cost” is defined as an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something.
Jan 23, 2023
Jan 23, 2023
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prices are a shortcuti recently encountered a stridently market-denying leftist on twitter, and i think their common misconceptions of economics are…
Feb 23, 2023
Feb 23, 2023
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lvt productivitythere’s a claim that LVT is beneficial because it causes land to be more efficiently allocated. But this is irrational because the current…
May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023
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progressive taxation is badimagine you could choose between the two following tax formulas.
Dec 12, 2021
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Dec 12, 2021
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HypothecationAn Epidemic in Economics
Jan 16, 2021
Jan 16, 2021