We’ve “been there and done that” so many times before. Yet, the endogenous cycle keeps returning, as soon as we find peace, and economic life returns to its even tenors.

As fewer can afford a home, might they nudge the experts to tally up what everyone pays to live where they love?

On Publicizing Public Land Records. (Final excerpt)

Farmland assessment: Amenity values, expected rising cash flows, tax shelter values, mineral rights, and entitlement values.

Major biases in land assessment: Radio spectrum, rights of way, and severed property.

Major biases in land assessment: Tax exempt land, minerals, and water.

Major biases in land assessment: Slow-turning classes of property, different assessment methods, and preferential assessment.

Major biases in land assessment: Regressive assessment and raw land.

The many important functions and implications of land data: Forecasting from past cycles, finding the real interest rate, assessment discrimination, and planning public works.

The many important functions and implications of land data: Land as a credit base, raising consciousness of latent values, and protecting federal revenues.

The many important functions and implications of land data: concentrated holding and property taxation.

Alvin Johnson, an American economist at several universities, denigrated the logic and evidence for land-value taxation in an anti-scholarly manner.

Many people seek clarification of economic definitions -- and it's no wonder, for the glossaries offered in most Economics courses aren't the least bit consistent or clear.

An investigator takes two steps forward, one back, then steps where?

People have bigger problems than measuring the “rents”. Or do they?

Until somebody measures the worth of Earth, many other issues must remain unresolved.

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

The economic data collected by the Federal Reserve includes real estate but leaves out the importance of land value and rent.

Their silence and protestations of ignorance aside, logically, the Federal Reserve must know the value of US land.

A New Model of the Economy presents a rational and clear theory of economic prosperity. I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to gain an in-depth understanding of economics.