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Platform and Data Rents

The returns a handful of digital firms earn from network-effect moats, accumulated data, and gatekeeping — the 'land-like positions' of the digital economy. The most contested rent in the file, alongside IP: is big-tech profit unearned rent, or the quasi-rent that rewards genuine innovation?

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Land Value Tax 18 MIN

Essays on land, tax, and the economics of a fair society.

Platform and Data Rents

Ruling ideas – Plato, Aristotle & Henry George

How Texas’s "Secret Tax" Hurts Taxpayers

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow – The Mirage of Prosperity in the 21st Century

Why do people hold vacant land out of use?

Your second canary in the Coalmine

Property tax reform takes center stage — Landscape 10

Is Land Undertaxed in Britain?

Low property taxes freeze the youth out of the economy

Is AI like Petroleum, or like Pens?

What is Wealth? (and Other Important Questions)

More disasters are coming. How should cities respond?

Land Value Tax in Practice - Grounds for Cautious Optimism?

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