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.

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.

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

You think those seeking change might climb abord the quest to know Earth's worth?

These days, only First Peoples hold to 'outdated' traditions: That land should be rented, not sold. We know better now, or so we think.

When public servants quit serving, to whom do you turn? Somebody out there must be the true answer man, eh?

You can hear how much Earth is worth from somebody afraid of the answer or from one who's determined to tell the truth.

There is enough for all of us. But will we look in the right places?

People tend to think an official stat is the answer. But is it? Is it accurate? Tainted by politics? Is the unofficial better?

How much do we spend on nature? On land under our homes, on the farmland portion of our food, on the oil portion of our gasoline? Not even the pros are sure.

You want your information straight up, not massaged by the messengers POV.

Cutting-edge bloggers in recent years have published what they discoverd about how much we pay for Earth.

Tallying Earth's worth is not simple addition. It's also strong opposition to subtle powers that be.

Until we begin thinking in holistic terms, we will lurch from one enemy to the next, forever suppressing symptoms even as we worsen the disease.

Goethe: The moment you commit, then Providence moves too... Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

The so-called discipline of economics has been systematically corrupted in two major ways.

A guide can make your tour of unfamiliar terrain, a fresh field of knowledge, yield deep insights more quickly.

The size of rent is enough to make you bowl over.

Geonomists must keep in the mix and stay part of the conversation about new policies needed to make a better world.

Since officials refuse to tally up what the public has a right to know, maybe they have a good reason for sitting this one out.

A critical mass is created only when called into action by an advance scout alerted to an opportunity to make progress.

This single datum, if widely known, could transform economies into the least problematic feature of society.

Anything worth hiding by the few must also be worth knowing by the many.

Contradictions in American society increase the discomfort, leading to a tipping point; so many will want to know the worth of Earth, officials will have to add it up.

The best way to hide a treasure is to not let anyone know it exists.

Knowledge is always power, isn't it? The power to make life better for one and all. You'd think.

When data that is supposed to be public knowledge is not, it's good to know why. Official incompetence? Unawareness of relevance? What?

The worth of Earth is not just another pretty number. It's proof that nature and markets love us.

It's not just that economies cannot help but create a surplus. It's also that that abundance creates a lack—if not properly treated.

It's not just that you're kept from knowing what they know. It's also that bad writers means bad thinkers.

The inequality of wealth and income has become a meme loaded with danger.

Progressives alone won't win. It'll take an alliance with their erstwhile opponents, the libertarians, to win the most basic of all reforms—an income apart from our labor.

Both critics and fans of markets overlook what Adam Smith and others said about land.

The human brain easily sees problems but is not hardwired to instantly recognize solutions. One must think, not just react. Can we pull it off?

Mason Gaffney is keenly aware of the effect that land has on the economy and well-being. He has dedicated his life to teaching about it.

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

If MIT wakes up to the power of geonomics—of efficient land use from reform of public revenue flow—this phenomenal reform for good will win a new legion.