Alison's political papers.

Alison’s Political Papers

Note: These papers don't all have the same national background. In the 20th century I lived in New Zealand, now I live in Britain.

Clippings from the internet and print media, 1999 to 2009.

January 2008.

Long wave economic depressions may be caused by birth-rate cycles nearly two generations long.

A short history of climate change, written in response to the TV documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, March 2007.

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.

A graph based on UK data for 2003-4, showing the tax cost of a revenue-neutral Citizens Income.

Green taxes on resources and pollution could be more progressive than income tax.

A poster about income distribution.

Edited extracts from e-mail discussions about monetary reform, 2001-9.

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.

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.

This paper was published in the UBINZ newsletter, May 1996.

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.

My recipe for a Green social democracy.

I wrote the first edition of this manifesto in 1988. I have found it useful ever since.

This was the last New Zealand edition of the manifesto.

Targeting, the Kondratiev long wave, the English Poor Law and the Speenhamland system.

Extracts from a paper written in 1987.