Alanna Hartzok

Overview

Alanna Hartzok is an American author, activist, and co-founder of Earth Rights Institute. Active in the Georgist movement since 1980, she has been a leading voice connecting Georgist land economics with environmental justice, peace, and human rights.

Roles and Advocacy

Hartzok serves as Administrative Director of the International Union for Land Value Taxation (the IU) and coordinates the IU's team of representatives to the United Nations in consultation with ECOSOC, the UN Economic and Social Council — the channel through which she has carried land-value-capture and resource-rent-sharing arguments into international development and UN forums. She co-founded Earth Rights Institute to advance these ideas globally, and has lectured on Georgist economics in many countries. She is a recipient of the International Earth Day Award and the Radical Middle Book Award, and twice stood for the US Congress (Green Party, 2001; Democratic Party, 2014). She represents the values-driven, internationalist wing of the movement, and the earth-rights strand of the citizen's dividend debate that grounds a per-person distribution in common ownership of the commons.

Written Work

Her book The Earth Belongs to Everyone (2008) collects roughly thirty essays arguing that capturing land and resource rent for the common good underpins a just and ecological economy — a foundational text of ecological Georgism and the land-as-commons tradition. Separately, her scholarly paper "Pennsylvania's Success with Local Property Tax Reform: The Split Rate Tax" (American Journal of Economics and Sociology 56(2), 1997, pp. 205–213) is a widely cited empirical account of Pennsylvania's two-rate (split-rate) property tax — documenting, among other findings, that Scranton and Pittsburgh maintained a land-to-building tax ratio of roughly 2-to-1 from 1913 until 1979, and tracing the extension of the two-rate option to third-class cities and school districts. That paper is cited on this wiki's Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh pages.

See Also

• Ecological Georgism · Land as Commons · Citizen's Dividend · Split-Rate Taxation · Resource Rents

Sources

1. Alanna Hartzok (2008), The Earth Belongs to Everyone (Institute for Economic Democracy Press; ISBN 9781933567051) — used for her earth-rights programme (A/C-claims; advocacy source, self-description).
2. Alanna Hartzok (1997), "Pennsylvania's Success with Local Property Tax Reform: The Split Rate Tax," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 56(2):205–213 — used for her authorship of the Pennsylvania split-rate paper and its findings. JSTOR 3487258 · PDF (full text read; also cited on pennsylvania and pittsburgh).
3. International Union for Land Value Taxation, "Administrative Director" — used for her IU role and coordination of the IU's UN/ECOSOC representatives, her activity in the movement since 1980, and the Earth Day / Radical Middle awards (C-claim; organizational self-description). theiu.org
4. Alanna Hartzok, LinkedIn profile — used only for the two US Congress candidacies (Green Party 2001, Democratic Party 2014) (C-claim; self-reported). linkedin.com/in/alanna-hartzok