The papers listed here don’t all have the same national background. In the 20th century I lived in New Zealand, now I live in Britain.
Between 2000 and 2009 this website was at the address www.geocities.com/ammpol.
Economics.
The crash of 2008: causes, rescue plans, and re-regulation.
Cheap money, bubbles, deregulation, more cheap money, re-regulation.
Clippings from the internet and print media, 1999 to 2009.
Couples and the K-wave.
January 2008.
Long wave economic depressions may be caused by birth-rate cycles nearly two generations long.
Inflation, interest, and the supply of money.
Edited extracts from e-mail discussions about monetary reform, 2001-9.
Land Tax.
Land tax reduces prices, other taxes increase them.
A paper from Greenweb, the newsletter of the Green Party of Aotearoa, February 1997, and edited extracts from email discussions, 2004-8.
Environment.
Climate change.
Natural and human influences on the climate.
A history of climate change, written in March 2007 in response to the TV documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
Green taxes and quotas.
A Green tax switch or shift to environmental taxes and quotas is urgent, and should be done right now. A sustainable tax base can be found later.
Edited extracts from email discussions, 2006-8.
Welfare.
Is a Basic or Citizens Income affordable?
A graph based on UK data for 2003-4, showing a Citizens Income, approximately half-way in value between the jobseekers allowance and the basic pension, which is revenue-neutral.
Was Marx right?
Green taxes on resources and pollution could be more progressive than income tax. A poster about income distribution.
A History of Basic Income Politics in New Zealand.
A story of slow progress towards a capitalist sort of communism.
This paper was written as background for UBINZ activists in 1996. It has been displayed on internet sites since 1997.
A three-stage transition to Basic Incomes.
This paper was published in the UBINZ newsletter, May 1996.
Citizens Incomes and progressive tax.
Progressive average taxes are more important than progressive marginal taxes.
A paper written for a seminar on Basic Incomes at Waikato University, September 1991, and edited extracts from e-mail discussions, 2000-8.
Some welfare history.
Targeting, the Kondratiev long wave, the English Poor Law and the Speenhamland system.
Extracts from a paper written in 1987.
Manifestos.
Alison’s manifesto, edition 61.
My recipe for a Green social democracy.
I wrote the first edition of this manifesto in 1988, as a draft for a party manifesto. I decided to keep it as a summary of my own opinions.
Alison’s manifesto, edition 50.
This was the last New Zealand edition of the manifesto.
