John Seymour is the leading intellectual heir of William Cobbett.

Land-value tax is in force now somewhere in the world due to Sun Yat-sen.

Karl Marx dealt with your 2.4 with the slightly different approach of commodity fetish, reaching a similar general conclusion.

Echo chamber or cloud of witnesses?

* water
* food
* energy
* housing
* safe management of our waste products.

All of these activities assume access to, and use of, a certain area of land. In non-slave societies, this access should be seen as a birthright for every person. It follows that each human has a notional right to a proportion of the Earth’s surface. Therefore, anyone holding a plot of land is renting that plot from the rest of society. This is the basis of the Land (or Site) Value tax which is a core green tax.

2.2 Second rank activities of distribution, trade and manufacture of tools occur in any society, (as opposed to a single individual in a subsistence situation).

2.3 A tertiary rank evolves in a complex society, comprising administration and public services.

2.4 Finally, a quarternary rank consisting of financial services is useful in complex economies.

Finance (money) is a symbol of value, a symbol that represents the power to obtain real goods and services. Money has no value in and of itself. Its purpose is to serve the smooth running of the economy, not to dominate it. Theories and practices that treat money as an entity are not sustainable in the long term as financial value drifts away from the ecological and social realities of life. So money is the fourth rank of the economy in green terms, although it is always ranked first in conventional terms.

This difference underpins the difference between green and conventional economics.

http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/GreenEconom.htm