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The father of economics (1723–1790) argued in The Wealth of Nations that ground-rents are an especially suitable subject of taxation — a Georgist conclusion a century early.
Analyst and forecaster who applies the 18-year land cycle to global markets, author of 'The Secret Wealth Advantage.'
American Georgist author and activist who links land value taxation to environmental justice, peace, and human rights, author of 'The Earth Belongs to Everyone.'
The co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection became a leading advocate of land nationalisation, applying Georgist-adjacent reasoning to British land reform.
Classical economist (1772–1823) whose Law of Rent provided the theoretical foundation Henry George later built upon.
British writer, comedian, and financial commentator who has popularized land value taxation for UK audiences through accessible explainers.
Founder of the garden-city movement, who designed self-financing planned towns funded by the rising ground rents the community itself created.
Georgist economist (1946–2021) who showed public goods can be privately financed through land rent, and who publicly predicted the 2008 crash in 1997.
British author and economic commentator. Author of The Power in the Land (1983) and Ricardo's Law (2006). Predicted the 2008 financial crisis fourteen years in advance using the 18-year land cycle.
American political economist (1839–1897) and author of Progress and Poverty. His proposal to replace all taxes with a single tax on land values sparked a global movement.
Philosopher and economist (1806–1873) who coined the 'unearned increment' of land and proposed taxing future land-value gains — a direct forerunner of Georgism.
Nobel laureate economist who formalized the Henry George Theorem and has repeatedly argued that land and rent are the proper base for taxation.
Economist at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose whose work on land, housing, and money revives Georgist analysis of the housing crisis.
Australian Georgist researcher and broadcaster, long the public face of Prosper Australia and host of the Renegade Economists podcast.
Game developer and writer whose 'Does Georgism Work?' series and book 'Land Is a Big Deal' launched the modern Georgism revival in tech and rationalist circles.
The Russian novelist became one of Henry George's most fervent advocates, promoting the single tax as a moral and practical remedy for landed injustice.
Economist whose work on value creation versus value extraction revives the classical distinction between productive activity and economic rent.
American economist (1923–2020) and professor emeritus at UC Riverside. A leading 20th-century defender of Georgist economics and author of The Corruption of Economics (1994).
Economist who analyses how the finance-insurance-real-estate (FIRE) sector extracts economic rent, drawing heavily on classical and Georgist rent theory.
The free-market economist (1912–2006) who, despite opposing most taxes, called the land value tax 'the least bad tax.'
Economist and the leading living theorist of land value taxation; co-author of key empirical and theoretical work on LVT and demand-revealing mechanisms.
Founding figure of the Republic of China, whose principle of the 'equalization of land rights' was directly influenced by Henry George and shaped Taiwan's land tax.
Industrialist-turned-reformer who, converted by Henry George's writing, became a Georgist mayor of Cleveland (1901–1909) and a leading Progressive-era reformer.
Nobel laureate economist (1914–1996) who championed land value taxation and congestion pricing, calling the property tax 'two taxes' that should be split toward land.