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Book-length treatments of land, rent, and the Georgist tradition, summarized with what each contributes to the evidence base and where each is contested.
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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.
Peter Barnes proposes 'commons trusts' as market-based legal entities to protect shared wealth — atmosphere, water, forests — by charging rent and paying dividends to all citizens, upgrading capitalism from version 2.0 to 3.0.
Neeson's social history of common right and parliamentary enclosure in 18th-century England, documenting how enclosure displaced small landholders and destroyed a peasantry dependent on shared land-use. Cambridge University Press, Past and Present Publications.
Edited by Robert V. Andelson, this 1979 centenary volume comprehensively surveys and evaluates the major critics of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, covering 19th and 20th century British, continental, and American critics from Marshall to Rothbard.
Pete Daniel documents how USDA agencies systematically discriminated against African American farmers from 1940 to 1974, causing a 93% decline in black farmers through denied loans, exclusion from programs, and bureaucratic 'passive nullification' of civil rights laws.
Herman Daly's collected essays critique growth economics from thermodynamic, ecological, and ethical perspectives, arguing that the economy is a subsystem of a finite ecosystem and that 'uneconomic growth' must be recognized and halted.
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.
Andelson and Dawsey's book arguing that Henry George's land-value tax offers a Christian liberation theology alternative to Marxism, applying Georgist principles to Latin American land reform. Published by Orbis Books and Shepheard-Walwyn.
Howard's 1902 manifesto proposing Garden Cities—new towns combining town and country advantages on communally-owned land, financed by land-value capture. A foundational text in urban planning and the Garden City movement. PUBLIC DOMAIN (pre-1929).
Charles Albro Barker's definitive 1955 biography traces Henry George's intellectual development from Philadelphia through California to global fame, framing him as a Jeffersonian-Jacksonian democrat whose land reform ideas grew from the American West Coast experience.
Banner's 2005 legal history argues that English colonists initially recognized Indian land ownership and purchased land rather than seizing it, tracing how land transfer methods shifted from contract to treaty to allotment over three centuries. Challenges the conquest-only narrative.
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.
Adams's accessible introduction to Georgist economics, explaining how privatized land rent causes wealth inequality, business recessions, and ecological destruction. Published by North Atlantic Books under Creative Commons. Influenced by Fred Harrison and Fred Foldvary.
Edited by Richard Noyes, this 1991 Centre for Incentive Taxation volume presents essays synthesizing capitalism and socialism through land value taxation, covering constitutional property rights (Tideman), UK planning gain, post-socialist transitions, ecological taxation, and international trade.
Burgess argues that taxation is a primal cause of inflation and unemployment, and that land rent provides a natural, non-coercive source of public revenue. Extends Keynesian analysis and Physiocratic tradition to argue for abolishing taxation in favor of land rent collection.
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.
Goldman's 1952 history of American reform from the Civil War to the Fair Deal covers Henry George and the single-tax movement, Populism, labor organizing, and the Progressive Era. Documents George's 1886 NYC mayoral campaign and the single-tax movement's pervasive influence on labor.
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 s...
Louis F. Post's 1923 first-hand account of the 1919–20 Palmer Raids, written by the Assistant Secretary of Labor and single-tax editor who reviewed ~1,600 deportation cases, cancelled well over 1,500 warrants as unlawfully obtained, and beat an impeachment attempt for it. Public domain — full tex...
Bryson's 2011 academic monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of Henry George's economic theory, covering methodology, distribution theory, free trade, and land policy. Argues that George was 'a very orthodox economist' (Schumpeter) whose insights on land and rent remain relevant to modern e...
The standard primary biography of Henry George, written by his son three years after George's death: thirty-five chapters from the Philadelphia childhood and years before the mast through Progress and Poverty, the Irish Land War, the 1886 New York mayoralty, and the final 1897 campaign. Public do...
Murray's monograph on Lloyd George's 1909/10 People's Budget, examining how the Liberals financed social reform through progressive direct taxation including land-value duties. Published by Oxford University Press. A UK government document study.
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 c...
Adam Smith's 1776 founding text of modern economics — read here through a Georgist lens. Book V argues that ground-rents are 'a still more proper subject of taxation than the rent of houses' and 'owe their existence to the good government of the sovereign'; Book I calls the rent of land...
Redfearn's 1992 book traces Tolstoy's engagement with Henry George's land reform ideas, documenting Tolstoy's advocacy of the single tax, his critique of state violence, and the connection between Georgism and Tolstoy's Christian anarchism. Published by Shepheard-Walwyn with Fred Harrison's encou...
Peter Barnes proposes universal dividends from co-owned wealth as a market-based solution to middle-class decline, arguing that jobs alone cannot sustain a broad middle class and that common-asset dividends bypass the tax-vs-spending political stalemate.
Phillip J. Anderson's 16-page advocacy eBook (Property Sharemarket Economics, ©2024, distributed free via citdiv.org): the Crown Estate as the model for collecting all economic rent through a politically insulated special-purpose vehicle and returning it as a citizen's dividend, replacing all tax...