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Pages I refer to often

Income Distribution in the US
How is our income distributed? Well, it is pretty concentrated. How concentrated? Take a look.
Progress and Poverty, by Henry George
Here are links to online editions of George's landmark book, Progress & Poverty, including audio and a number of abridgments -- the shortest is 30 words! I commend this book to your attention, if you are concerned about economic justice, poverty, sprawl, energy use, pollution, wages, housing affordability. Its observations will change how you approach all these problems. A mind-opening experience!
Wealth Concentration Tables from 2004 SCF: Bottom 90%, Next 9% and Top 1%
Aggregated data by net worth quantile, for various kinds of wealth. With calculations you won't find anywhere else!
Wealth Concentration Tables from 2004 SCF: 50-40-5-4-1
These tables show how concentrated the ownership of various kinds of assets are. With calculations you won't find anywhere else! This version is less aggregated: Bottom 50%, Next 40%, Next 5%, Next 4% and Top 1%.

Books I Value

Henry George: Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth ... The Remedy
This is perhaps the most important book ever written on the subjects of poverty, political economy, how we might live together in a society dedicated to the ideals Americans claim to believe are self-evident. It will provide you new lenses through which to view many of our most serious problems and how we might go about solving them: poverty, sprawl, long commutes, despoilation of the environment, housing affordability, wealth concentration, income concentration, concentration of power, low wages, etc. Read it online, or in hardcopy.
Bob Drake's abridgement of Henry George's original: Progress and Poverty: Why There Are Recessions and Poverty Amid Plenty -- And What To Do About It!
This is a very readable thought-by-thought updating of Henry George's longer book, written in the language of a newsweekly. A fine way to get to know Henry George's ideas. Available online at progressandpoverty.org and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm

Where Else Might You Look?

Wealth and Want
The URL comes from the subtitle to Progress & Poverty -- and the goal is widely shared prosperity in the 21st century. How do we get there from here? A roadmap and a reference source.
Reforming the Property Tax for the Common Good
I'm a tax reform activist who seeks to promote fairness and reduce poverty. Let's start with the enabling legislation and state requirements for the property tax. There are opportunities for great good!
A blog about Stamford, Connecticut, and its opportunities for progress and prosperity for all
Bringing it home to one medium-sized city's day to day issues and opportunities
LVTFan's blog: Connecting the dots between our most serious problems and what I've come to believe is the solution we need to embrace.
I'm a tax reform activist who seeks to promote fairness and reduce poverty in America. Land Value Taxation seems to me to be our very best hope for these goals, and for reducing urban sprawl and its concomitants.

Sites I enjoy

CityEconomist: City Economic and Financial News and Analysis
Dr. Gavin R. Putland
Land Rent will save the world
Land Value Tax | Jock's Place
Mark Wadsworth's blog
Mason Gaffney's website
Progress and Poverty: why there are recessions and poverty amid plenty -- and what to do about it! by Henry George
This is Bob Drake's excellent 2006 abridgment of Henry George's landmark book, Progress and Poverty. Its language and tone are very accessible. You can read it online or order hardcopy. And Bob's reading of it is available at http://www.hgchicago.org/audio
Saving Communities
Taxpayer: a more or less Henry George view of things
The Distributist Review

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March 22, 2012

The Arts & Crafts Community at Arden, Delaware

The Arts & Crafts Community at Arden, Delaware - Old-House Online.

The Arts & Crafts community of Arden, Delaware, offers a glimpse into a cohesive social experiment grounded by great architecture.
Story and photos by James C. Massey & Shirley Maxwell

photo caption: The Castle (1923) represents the essence of the community—a historic cottage, restored, rehabbed, and added to over the years.

North of Wilmington, Delaware, in a niche created by two busy roads and a pair of creeks feeding the Delaware River, sits a tiny village with an intriguing past and an array of Arts & Crafts-era buildings in a period-perfect landscape.

The Village of Arden echoed the era’s bent toward social improvement, simplicity, and artistic and intellectual activity—with a dollop of whimsy tossed into the mix. Named for Shakespeare’s storied forest of the same name, Arden welcomed bohemians, free-thinkers, and reformers of every ilk—artists, writers, academics, suffragists, socialists, communists, and anarchists—all refugees from the evils of the Industrial Age and its rampant capitalism.

In 1900 Frank Stephens, a Philadelphia sculptor, bought a rundown farm near Wilmington, intending to turn it into a social, economic, and artistic demonstration project illustrating the truth of economic crusader Henry George’s Single-Tax philosophy (see “The Single Tax System,” page 61) and British art critic William Morris’ aesthetic tenets. Stephens’ main collaborators were two other Philadelphia Georgists: noted architect William Lightfoot (Will) Price, who founded the Arts & Crafts community of Rose Valley in nearby Pennsylvania in 1901, and philanthropist Joseph Fels, heir to the Fels Naptha soap fortune.

Read the entire article at http://www.oldhouseonline.com/the-arts-crafts-community-at-arden-delaware/

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