Glossary

Cadastral: (of a map or survey) showing the extent, value, and ownership of land, especially for taxation.

Geonomics: Geonomics or Georgism, named after Henry George (1839-1897), is a philosophy and economic ideology that holds that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all of humanity.

Mulct: verb - extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation, noun - a fine or compulsory payment.

Noosphere: a postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships (frequently with reference to the writings of Teilhard de Chardin).

Physiocrat: a member of an 18th-century group of French economists who believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade.

Propertarians: advocates of a political philosophy (Propertarianism, or proprietarianism) that reduces all questions of ethics to the right to own property.

Rent: payments for land, not for buildings, but also includes subsurface minerals and supra-surface electromagnetic frequencies, and not just solids like land but also liquids like water and gases like air; in sum, whatever is natural and has economic value. Parsing finer, rent is not only actual payments but also the imputed value of a location.

Rentier: a person living on income from property or investments.