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Uses data from 15 Pennsylvania municipalities (1972–1994) to show that a higher tax rate on land relative to buildings significantly increases construction activity.
Rognlie's first, widely circulated critique of Piketty — showing the rise in capital's share is concentrated in housing and that capital faces diminishing returns.
Henry George's 1892 critique of Herbert Spencer, who had endorsed common rights to land then recanted — a foundational statement of the philosophical case for land as common property.
An overview of the current empirical research agenda for land value taxation — what is known, what is contested, and what needs studying next.
The canonical formalization of the Henry George Theorem: in an optimally sized city, aggregate land rent exactly equals the optimal spending on public goods.
The standard modern policy reference on land value taxation — surveying the theory, the international and US experience, and practical implementation.
The Astral Codex Ten book-review-contest winner that launched the modern Georgism revival in rationalist and effective-altruist circles.
Shows that the long-run rise in capital's share of income documented by Piketty is almost entirely attributable to housing — that is, to land — not to reproducible capital.
A cross-country analysis of property-tax revenue performance across 128 countries, identifying what drives successful property and land taxation.
Lars Doucet's three-part empirical investigation of the main objections to LVT — land's magnitude, tax incidence, and assessment — published on Astral Codex Ten.
IMF working paper using optimal-taxation theory to show that land value taxation is efficient and can also be made progressive — equity and efficiency are not in tension.
Derives a justification for land value taxation from Rawlsian principles — behind the veil of ignorance, rational agents would choose to socialize land rent.
Argues that the rent-seeking once centered on land is being repeated in digital platform economies, and calls for updated Georgist policy for the digital age.
A curated set of accessible YouTube explainers introducing Georgism and land value taxation to general audiences.
A 2025 survey in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy assessing the contemporary relevance of Henry George's ideas to growth and land speculation.
Constructs a measure of 'implicit' land taxes from the gap between assessed and market land values, and identifies significant real economic effects.
European Economic Review paper confirming that rising wealth-to-income ratios are driven by land, and showing a land tax can replace capital taxes with no efficiency loss.
The Lincoln Institute's policy-focused podcast on land use, taxation, housing, and urban economics.
The definitive country-by-country comparative survey of land value taxation worldwide, edited by Robert Andelson — the standard reference on global LVT implementation.
A widely-recommended long-form podcast conversation introducing Georgism through Lars Doucet — among the best single-sitting introductions to the ideas.
Models how a land value tax affects urban agglomeration, finding it can improve both efficiency and equity in city formation.
A framework distinguishing value-creating activity from value-extracting economic rent across land, finance, and digital platforms.
Examines how market power and the rents it generates complicate the design of optimal income taxation.
Rigorous empirical evidence that natural-resource rents reduce local tax effort and weaken government accountability — the 'resource curse' at the local level.
Gaffney's historical argument that neoclassical economics was deliberately shaped to obscure land as a distinct factor and to defeat Henry George's reform movement.
Economist-blogger Noah Smith's influential essays defending land value taxation and arguing how to make it politically viable.
Shows that optimal income-tax design must account for high earners who engage in rent-seeking rather than value creation.
A calibrated macro model showing that raising land tax while cutting income taxes delivers a large, balanced-budget economic stimulus.
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of
Henry George's 1886 case for free trade — arguing protection cannot help labour because its gains are absorbed by land rent. The first book read in full into the US Congressional Record.
Proposes auction-based mechanisms to overcome the holdout problem in assembling urban land for development.
A 600+ episode podcast on land tax, banking, and monopoly power from an Australian Georgist perspective, hosted by Karl Fitzgerald.
Henry George's accessible 1883 follow-up to Progress and Poverty, expanding the social and political implications of land monopoly for a popular audience.
Compares Tallinn (pure land value tax since 1993) with Riga, finding higher inner-city density and construction under the land-only tax.
Argues that tax policy shapes the pre-tax distribution of income by enabling or constraining rent extraction — not merely redistributing after the fact.
A comprehensive IMF assessment of recurrent property and land taxes worldwide — revenue potential, efficiency, incidence, and the administrative obstacles to adoption.
Using Mexican natural experiments, this NBER paper finds that raising property-tax rates increases welfare, while heavy-handed enforcement can reduce it.
A structured 12-part audio course introducing Georgist principles, produced by Earthsharing Australia.
Extends the Henry George Theorem to realistic economies with increasing returns, distortions, and property taxes, deriving a robust second-best version.
Gaffney's detailed argument that the economic rent of land in the US is large enough to fund government at all levels without taxing labour or capital.
Landmark empirical study finding Pittsburgh's 1979–80 shift toward heavier land taxation was followed by a building boom that comparison cities did not see.
Henry George's 1881 tract (originally on the Irish land question) arguing that the problem is private land ownership itself, not who the landlords are — a concise entry point to his thought.
Documents how a roster of mainstream and Nobel-laureate economists have endorsed conclusions central to Georgism.
Henry George's unfinished, posthumously published treatise attempting a complete systematic reconstruction of economic theory around his analysis of land, labour, and capital.
The 1977 Joseph Stiglitz paper that coined the 'Henry George Theorem' — showing that under optimal conditions, land rents exactly fund optimal public-goods spending.
Finds that high urban land rents suppress total factor productivity by misallocating labour and capital across cities.
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin's influential endorsement of Harberger taxes and Georgist property reform, which carried the ideas into crypto and tech circles.