The Common Wealth Blog
Articles on building the commons and sharing the value arising from our natural and co-created wealth.
Canada’s housing debate has a giant blind spot: Land rents
There is a blind spot the size of Canada's housing crisis in the debate that virtually no politician, pundit, and economist is talking about: unearned income from the rent of land.
Petro Canada - Oil Common Wealth Lost
People often look with envy and awe at the accumulated financial resources from natural wealth in places like Norway, Alaska or Gulf oil states. Many public goods are provided to citizens of these nations and jurisdictions, because governments capture the economic rents…
Common wealth for the common good.
Common Wealth is a project that promotes policies rooted in the idea that value arising from what nature or society creates, rather than individual effort, should be collected to benefit all citizens directly — through dividends and lower taxes.
Doing so would fix the incentives driving our housing and cost of living crises, while stewarding our resources for the benefit of future generations. The goal of this project is to expand our common wealth in order to create a society where progress benefits everyone.