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Josh Ryan-Collins
Economist at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose whose work on land, housing, and money revives Georgist analysis of the housing crisis.
Overview
Josh Ryan-Collins is an economist and head of research at University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). His work connects land, money, and housing, arguing that the interaction of bank credit and a fixed supply of land drives housing crises in advanced economies.
Key Work
- Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (2017, with Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane) reintroduced land as a central economic factor and argued that treating housing as a financial asset, fuelled by credit against fixed land, produces inflation and inequality.
- Why Can't You Afford a Home? (2018) applies the analysis to the affordability crisis.
- Co-author of "Mapping Modern Economic Rents" (2023) with Mariana Mazzucato.
Significance
Ryan-Collins brings the land-and-credit analysis — close to Michael Hudson's and the 18-year cycle view — into mainstream housing-policy research, making the Georgist case to a new generation of economists.
See Also
- New Economics Foundation — the London think tank where Ryan-Collins was based when co-authoring both Where Does Money Come From? and Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
- Toby Lloyd — his co-author on Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing and a former Henry George Foundation deputy chief executive
- Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (book page)
- Mapping Modern Economic Rents · Michael Hudson · 18-Year Land Cycle
- Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (2017) — his book, in depth
Sources
- Ryan-Collins, Lloyd & Macfarlane (2017), Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing — used for the land-credit feedback thesis (A-claims; book page, provenance-pending scan).
- Mazzucato, Ryan-Collins & Gouzoulis (2023) — used for the rent-mapping collaboration (A-claim). wiki summary