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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 6 MIN

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

Platform and Data Rents

How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It

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

DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes

What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism.

Amateurs talk Algorithms, Professionals talk Data Cleaning

Why Georgists use the 🔰 mark

Want to Model a Land Value Tax Shift in Your City? Here's How.

How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's

New Reports: Land Value Taxes in College Towns

Uniformity Does Not Preclude Land Value Taxes

The Leviathan: Property Taxes in the Big Apple

Abundance and Anti-Monopoly: The Legacy of Tom Johnson

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