County Bounty · The Quest to Know the Worth of Earth by Smith, Jeffery Johnson -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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cover Title Page Copyright page

Publisher’s Foreword

Epigraph

Glossary

Contents

A Pandemic Preface A Nation’s Nature – Worth Counting

Be Forewarned Taboo Tabulation But What It’s Done For Us Lately?

Both the Measure and the Measuring – Outrageous

Is Trillion the New Billion? A Magic Number? Hindering the Counting

Modern “Man” Can’t See the Land All the doo-dah day

Unfamiliar Can Be Invisible Numbness Feels So Good Why Won’t Watchdogs Bark?

Knowledge Worth Knowing

Power to See Deeper, Broader Knowing Bounty Knowing What Spending Spurs Knowledge That Keeps on Yielding

Seek Answers vs Repeat Stock Phrases

Bury or Praise Rent? It’s All Academic Class Bias? “Greens” Housing Reformers See Site Rent

Official Stamp of Insignificance

Bait & Switch? Fig Leaf or Figure? Paltry Pleases

Our Ignorance Is Whose Bliss?

Why Blind? Curiosity Chills the Chat Economists Don’t Have It Easy What We Don’t Know Does Hurt Us

Missing Link Can De-Mystify Economies

Tremendous Turf Eyes on the Prize

The Call of the Riled

Who Calls Out? Who Has Soundproof Earwax? Who’ll Take This Watch?

Our Turn With the Torch

Better the Devil We Know – Really? Professionals Wonder Elsewhere Time for an Encore?

Data – Quantity, Lots; Quality, Well …

A Professional Wonders Why Too Much of a Good Thing? Professionals – More Cautious Than Curious

Media Report Official Land Values

Their New Dish Top 10 Articles Help Is on the Way

Money Talks … And Silences?

“Rentention” – Hard Habit to Break Forbidden Knowledge Knowledge Appeals to Privilege Compliant Economists Counterfeit Nobel Banks, The Collector for Rentiers Banks – Owners and Ownees Banks – Ownees and Owners The Real State is Real Estate Silence Is Gold-ridden – The Spoils of the Spoiled Lucky Gentry

Scholars Guess: How Many $ In This Market?

Straining at the Leash The Road to Academic Answers Who Tallies the Money We Spend for the Nature We Use? Top 10 Studies

Mining Numbers at Official Stockpiles

Peering into the Experts’ Sources Top 10 Agencies: Looking for Rent in Mostly Wrong Places Agencies Reporting Housing+

Land: the More Pristine, the Less Pricey

“Economic Land” Can Be Wet, Breezy, Even Ethereal Top 10 Public Talliers of Public Lands Congressional Attempts – More Data Vacuum Do Agencies Check Their Sources? 5 Best Private Tallies

Even a World Banker Rips Other Economists

Both Sides Share the Same Blind spot What’d They Say? Jargon Justifiable? Clarity, a Sine Qua Non

The US Fed Also Rips Official US Stats

Be Forewarned Inaccuracy Alternatives Irrelevance Rent-less Wonders

Figures for Land: From a Fun House?

Other Totals Are Iffy But At Least Exist Casting Pearls Before Swains of Data They Count Something – But What? Replacement Cost? Land Costs Zero! Eyes Wide Shut Political Pressure Assessing Accurately Lay Down the Gauntlet

Colluding Or Not – They Censor Rents

Just Like Censorship Nothing Personal

True Total Trillions Yanks Spend on Land

He Asked for It He’s Getting Warm Filling In the Blanks From Price to Rent Geonomists Take Their Turns Getting Personal

How Did an Old Guard Treat a Young Upstart?

More Rent, Fewer Admirers? Admiration – a Two-Way Street More Rent on the Horizon

Manmade Utilities Spout Natural Rent

Utilities Generate Rent, Too Utilities As Natural Enclosures of Common Revenue Worth of Quasi-Land Monopolies Monopolies Fight Progress

Eco-librium Repatriates Rents

Myopic Grasshoppers Depress the Earth “Leaders” Limit Liability Purchase Limited Liability Farsighted Ants Enrich the Earth Costs of Damaging Land Cars & the Culmination of Costs Lose Losses, Gain Greater Rents

Staking Claims on Field of Knowledge

No Trespassing on Fields of Knowledge From Excluding to Depriving Discovery Dibs Paper Claim Go into Business Fees P&C Command Dollars

Scouting Ahead of the Curve Strains Ties

Working Without a Net Academics Criticize Bogeyman Critics of Finance Overlook Funds Regulation or an Ounce of Prevention? Howl Until Heard

The Federal Reserve – The Vault of the Stat?

In the Belly of the Fed The Fed Inflates Fed & Land Political Tentacles Spawn of Jekyll Island Our Military at Their Beck-and-Call Cracking the Fed

Porcelain Economics: Look, Don’t Touch

They Can Laugh, As They Should Wrongheaded and Just Plain Wrong The Gaping Hole Field of Brooms: under the rug goes rent Students Beg for Relevance Insiders Bemoan No Usefulness Check Your Ethics at the Door All Creek, No Paddle?

A Sound Alternative Left in Limbo

Everybody Guarded Geonomists – Let There Be Light A Generation Ready?

As Crises Climax, Why Tally Rents?

Culling All Solutions Eco-librium Upended Housing Out of Reach Recurring Recession Uncle Sam Bankrupt 1% – Out of Control Crisis = Opportunity? At All?

Do What Others Won’t? Nail Down Rent?

Now what? Quit, or Keep at It? Can’t Count on the Counters Can’t Count on the Reformers Can Count on a Gadfly An Endgame Strategy

New Hope from New Statisticians, Inc.(s)

Outside-the-Boxers Demand & Supply True Stats Potential Suppliers – Firms for Reformed Figures

Modern Enclosers Hinder Counting the Rent

Fiefdoms for Freehold Only Land Sans Duty Shared Spaces – Zilch No Shared Power, Either, Thank You

If Lowballing Inputs, How Much Is Rent?

For the Sake of Argument, Surrender Trade Logic for Convention? Inputs Updated

Firms Offer a Rent Total – For a Price

Answers For Sale Money Makes the Ground Get Counted Raising Funds

Movements Find a Piece to Their Puzzle

Activists Fry Fish Upstream? Green Over Grey New Urbanists Jobs Chase Workers Liberty Lovers Currency Crafters Business Jurisdictions Losing Dissonance, Making Common Cause

People Power to De-classify Deep Data?

Rulers Boss Bureaucrats For Us: Freedom of Information Act Go Over Their Heads Leading the Way

The Greatest Stat on Earth: Its Real Worth

Lax vs. Logical Why Price Bias? Value Exceeds Price Flowing to a Total A Figure for a New Future

There’s a New Indicator in Town: It’s Ground

Shockingly Grand Rebut but Again Grey Over Green Income Parity States Obese Business Cycle Federal Forecast Universal Success Local Waste Sharpening the Indicator

Fund Community with Land Rents?

Reap as Y’all Sow Just Emote “No” Morality or Normalcy Bias? Motivated Owners Up the Output The Pot Stirs

Surplus – A Way to Remake the World?

Dividends for Everyone? Emotional Antis – Morality & Norms, Old & New Rent Share Well-Being Prices Precise, Choices Efficient Society Shifting toward Sharing?

$10K Per Month, Free – Is That Insane?

Spend Rent, Grow Rent Seven Ways Rent Grows

I. Safe Neighborhoods II. Redevelopment III. Transportation IVa. Popular Uprising IVb. Popular Uprising Justified by Four Deficiencies IVc. Popular Uprising Could Redirect Revenue V. Healed VI. GDP Growth VII. Cost of Living

The Excess that Keeps on Exceeding

Celebrate Knowing Rent with a Powwow

Potlatch Party Time Catch up to Indians Manhattan For Beads Counting Celebrates a New Worldview

Let Times Square Celebrate a New High

We Conclude … What’s Accomplished Progress

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