Events & Campaigns

Henry George's run for Mayor of New York on a land-reform platform — the high-water mark of Georgism as an electoral force, finishing ahead of Theodore Roosevelt.

Detroit's mayor proposed a split-rate land value tax to cut homeowner taxes and penalize speculators holding vacant land and parking lots — a prominent modern US campaign.

Alaska's 1976 constitutional creation of a fund from oil-resource rents — and its annual citizen dividend since 1982 — the largest real-world resource-rent dividend.

'Socialise the Rent' (7 November 1990): thirty Western economists — including Nobel laureates Modigliani, Tobin, Solow, and Vickrey — urged the Soviet Union to keep land in public ownership and fund government from land rent during the transition. Organized by Nicolaus Tideman; the advice was not ta

California's 1978 ballot initiative capping property tax rates at 1% and limiting assessment growth until sale — the canonical property-tax revolt event in the United States and a major political counterpoint to land-value taxation.

The nineteenth century's defining defeat of the landed interest: Peel's repeal of Britain's grain tariffs, won with Ricardo's rent theory as its intellectual artillery — the historical proof that rent-theory politics can beat organized landowners, and the template George's movement tried to repeat.

Taiwan's 1949–1953 land-to-the-tiller reforms and 1954 equalization statute institutionalized Sun Yat-sen's Georgist-influenced land program, establishing the framework for Taiwan's modern land value capture system.

Lloyd George's 1909 budget proposed land value duties, triggering a constitutional crisis with the House of Lords and the curtailment of its veto power.

The global financial crisis of 2007–2008, read through two complementary lenses: the Georgist land-cycle reading (Foldvary forecast it in 1997, Harrison in 2005) and the mainstream credit-cycle reading (the Great Mortgaging, BIS financial cycle) — both centering on real estate and credit b.

Mass agitation led by the Irish National Land League against evictions and rack-renting by landlords, centred on the 'Three Fs' and peasant proprietorship — the crisis Henry George intervened in with The Land Question (1881).

The single-tax movement's federal high-water mark: a bill for a 1% federal excise on land holdings over $10,000, introduced 1919 and reintroduced as H.R. 5733 in 1924 — and, per Gaffney, the campaign that Ely's industry-funded land-economics institute was mobilized to defeat.

The September 1890 Saratoga session on the single tax — the set-piece confrontation between Henry George and the rising academic economics profession, with J.B. Clark pressing 'The Moral Basis of Property in Land' and Seligman among the academic critics. The moment the George-vs-academy battle line

Intentional communities founded around 1900 — Fairhope, Alabama and Arden, Delaware — to demonstrate Henry George's single tax in practice. Several still operate today.