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Karl Fitzgerald

Australian Georgist researcher and broadcaster, long the public face of Prosper Australia and host of the Renegade Economists podcast.

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First entry2026-06-06
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Overview

Karl Fitzgerald is an Australian Georgist campaigner, researcher, and broadcaster, for many years the most visible public voice of Prosper Australia.

Contributions

  • Speculative Vacancies research. Fitzgerald led Prosper's pioneering speculative vacancy studies, using water-consumption data to reveal how much housing sits deliberately empty — original empirical work that few others have matched.
  • Renegade Economists. He hosted the long-running Renegade Economists radio show and podcast (600+ episodes), bringing land-tax, banking, and monopoly analysis to a broad Australian audience.
  • Advocacy and media. Through Prosper and Earthsharing, he has been a tireless populariser of Georgist economics.

See Also

Sources

  1. Renegade Economists podcast / Prosper Australia radio — used for his roles and projects (A-claims; organizational self-description). prosper.org.au/radio
  2. Karl Fitzgerald (2013), Total Resource Rents of Australia — used for the TRRA authorship (A-claim). Full research page on this wiki: Total Resource Rents of Australia; the estimate is also carried, with caveats, on land rent could fund government. PDF