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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.

Capitalism
Private ownership of land and capital alike. The market allocates both.
Socialism
Common ownership of the means of production. The state allocates capital.
Georgism
Keep what you make; share the value of land. Tax economic rent, untax labor.
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rent · 15 min read · By Floyd Marinescu

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.

Land Value Tax · 32 min read · By Lars Doucet

How Appraisers Value Land

An interview with Thomas Holding, a veteran appraiser who has worked on all sides of the industry

Rent & the Surplus · 10 min read · By Greg Miller

The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis

Why rising housing costs are really about constrained urban land, and what to do about it

Boom & Bust Cycles · 21 min read · By Martin Jacobson

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.

Land Value Tax · 11 min read · By Jeff Fong

Georgism through Land Leasing

Municipal Land Leasing is real, effective, and very, very Georgist

Land Value Tax · 20 min read · By Lars Doucet

The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax

What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment

Land Value Tax · 32 min read · By Lars Doucet

How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's

The lost art of the "Somers System" of land valuation

Henry George & Movement · 11 min read · By Christopher England

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 & Movement · 16 min read · By Reed Schwartz

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

Political Philosophy · 11 min read · By Martin Jacobson

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

Political Philosophy · 13 min read · By Darren Iversen

Socialism vs. the Single Tax, Pt. 2

The Historical Clash Between Two Economic Ideals

Henry George & Movement · 14 min read · By Darren Iversen

Socialism vs. The Single Tax, Pt. 1

The Historical Clash Between Two Economic Ideals

Land Value Tax · 6 min read · By Sam Harsimony

Georgism... In Space!

Just and proper political economy for an interplanetary civilization

Henry George & Movement · 26 min read · By Progress and Poverty

In Memoriam: 125 Years Since Henry George

Excerpts from "Henry George: Unorthodox American" by Albert Jay Nock

Rent & the Surplus · 13 min read · By Progress and Poverty

Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?

A guest essay by Vitalik Buterin

Henry George & Movement · 8 min read · By Progress and Poverty

Ode to Liberty

Henry George's 4th of July Oration

Society · 31 min read · By Jeffery J. Smith

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.

Essay · 8 min read · By David Chester

The Most Socially Just Tax

Aspects of Land Value Taxation Affecting Government, Land Owners, Communities, and Ethics

Essay · 2 min read · By Bryan Kavanagh

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.

Essay · 4 min read · By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.

Principles of an Optimal Tax Policy

The principles of a good tax system point to land value taxation as optimal

Essay · 1 min read · By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.

The Ten Commandments of Geoism

It is the implementation of justice in the familiar form of the Ten Commandments.

Essay · 4 min read · By Jeffery J. Smith

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.

Essay · 1 min read · By Martin Adams

The Corruption of Economics

The failure to distinguish land from capital prevents most economists from “diagnosing problems, forecasting important trends, and prescribing solutions.”​

Essay · 11 min read · By Martin Adams

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.

Society · 5 min read · By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.

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