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Housing crises, weak productivity, and widening inequality share one root: progress flows into the value of scarce assets instead of to the people who build, work, and power our economy. That can change.
The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash
Land rises 14 years, falls 4 — and has for 200 years. The cause is rising land prices becoming unsustainable for productive economic activity. The remedy has been known since 1879.
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What is Georgism?
Capitalism defends private ownership of nearly everything; socialism would put the means of production in common hands. Georgism draws the line down the middle — what you build and earn is yours to keep, but the value of the land beneath it, which no one made, belongs to everyone. Tax the land, not the labor.
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The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash
Land rises 14 years, falls 4 — and has for 200 years. The cause is rising land prices becoming unsustainable for productive economic activity. The remedy has been known since 1879.
How Appraisers Value Land
An interview with Thomas Holding, a veteran appraiser who has worked on all sides of the industry
The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis
Why rising housing costs are really about constrained urban land, and what to do about it
Will the Housing Market Crash in 2026?
The "18-year land cycle" theory predicts a crash this year. Martin Jacobson evaluates the evidence for it.
Georgism through Land Leasing
Municipal Land Leasing is real, effective, and very, very Georgist
The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax
What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment
How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's
The lost art of the "Somers System" of land valuation
Abundance and Anti-Monopoly: The Legacy of Tom Johnson
A Cleveland mayor from the Gilded Age shows how to synthesize two clashing movements
Henry George and Sun Yat-sen: A Global Legacy of Land Reform
Originally published on Progress and Poverty on January 4, 2024. Republished on Progress.org with permission. Henry George was Gilded
Geoism As Part of The Left-Libertarian Tradition
Originally published on Progress and Poverty on October 11, 2023. Republished on Progress.org with permission. What I have done
Socialism vs. the Single Tax, Pt. 2
The Historical Clash Between Two Economic Ideals
Socialism vs. The Single Tax, Pt. 1
The Historical Clash Between Two Economic Ideals
Georgism... In Space!
Just and proper political economy for an interplanetary civilization
In Memoriam: 125 Years Since Henry George
Excerpts from "Henry George: Unorthodox American" by Albert Jay Nock
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
A guest essay by Vitalik Buterin
Ode to Liberty
Henry George's 4th of July Oration
101+ Famous Thinkers on Owning Earth
While geniuses often disagree, some of our best minds have come to a similar conclusion regarding one of humanity's thorniest problems – how to share land fairly.
The Most Socially Just Tax
Aspects of Land Value Taxation Affecting Government, Land Owners, Communities, and Ethics
Socialize the Rent
We need to capture the economic rent of our natural resources in order to, finally, put paid to this incredibly counter-productive period of economic retrogression.
Principles of an Optimal Tax Policy
The principles of a good tax system point to land value taxation as optimal
The Ten Commandments of Geoism
It is the implementation of justice in the familiar form of the Ten Commandments.
The Shape of Rent
More than an intellectual curiosity, the flow of value from desired locations is an untapped resource, able to alter our lives for the radically better.
The Corruption of Economics
The failure to distinguish land from capital prevents most economists from “diagnosing problems, forecasting important trends, and prescribing solutions.”
Economic Depressions: What Causes Them, and How to Prevent Them
Most people — even many economists — don’t understand that the real estate market is the primary cause of economic downturns.
The Ethics of Land and Liberty
What justifies the ownership of anything? Ethics, governance, and economics are interrelated and can be unified in one system