Books

Fred Harrison's 2005 book presents the 18-year land cycle as a predictable pattern driven by land speculation, argues monetary policy cannot prevent it, and proposes rent-as-public-revenue as the remedy. The 2nd updated edition (2010) confirmed Harrison's 1997 prediction of the 2008 crisis.

Blaug's standard history of economic thought (5th ed., 1997): the mainstream reference for how rent theory evolved from Ricardo through the marginal revolution, and a non-Georgist witness to land's disappearance as a separate factor. Book summary page.

Doucet's 2022 book-length case (from the prize-winning ACX series) that land remains economically dominant: land-value scale estimates, the non-pass-through evidence including the Danish natural experiment, and modern assessment methods. The movement's best modern popularization. Book summary page.

Posner & Weyl's 2018 mechanism-design manifesto: its Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (COST) extends George's land tax to all property via Harberger self-assessment — a modern descendant that departs from George by taxing capital as well as land. Book summary page; scanned by Hermes at T2.

Ryan-Collins, Lloyd & Macfarlane's 2017 study of how land's omission from economic theory and the land–credit feedback loop between mortgage lending and land prices drive the UK housing crisis. The macro-financial backbone of the housing-crisis narrative. Book summary page.

Fred Harrison's 2006 book argues that taxes on wages and capital are effectively a 'clawback' of land rents — the tax system transfers wealth from the poor to the rich by taxing production while leaving land rents privatized. The book estimates deadweight losses at 30p-£2 per pound raised.

Gaffney and Harrison's 1994 polemical history arguing neoclassical economics was deliberately reshaped — by Clark, Ely, Seligman and their patrons — to bury George's land question by merging land into capital. The wiki's corruption narrative rests on it; an argument, not a detached survey. Book summ

Fred Harrison's 1983 book presents the 18-year land cycle as the driver of the business cycle, extending Homer Hoyt's Chicago research with UK, Japanese, and Australian evidence. Harrison predicted the 1992 recession nine years ahead.

Phil Anderson's 2008 book traces US real estate cycles from 1800 to the 2008 crisis, arguing the ~18-year cycle is driven by the capitalization of ground rent through the banking system. The cycle is not a banking conspiracy but a systemic outcome of permitting land rent capitalization.

Akhil Patel's 2023 book presents the ~18-year real estate cycle from an investment perspective, tracing the lineage from Henry George through Fred Harrison and Homer Hoyt. The book argues the cycle is driven by land speculation and the law of economic rent, with stock market gains of ~450% from cycl