Lars Doucet

Overview

Lars Doucet is an American game developer, writer, and land-assessment entrepreneur who became one of the most influential popularisers of Georgism in the 2020s. His work reframed land value taxation for a technically literate online audience and is widely credited with reviving interest in Henry George's ideas in Silicon Valley, rationalist, and effective-altruist communities.

Contributions

• "Does Georgism Work?" — His three-part Astral Codex Ten series (2021–22) examined the main empirical objections to LVT (magnitude, incidence, assessment).
• Land Is a Big Deal (2023) — A book expanding the series into the most accessible modern introduction to Georgism, praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith.
• Center for Land Economics — Doucet co-founded this nonprofit, which works on practical land assessment and LVT research, directly addressing the assessment objection.

Significance

Doucet represents the contemporary, empirically minded wing of Georgism: less concerned with George's 19th-century rhetoric than with whether the policy survives modern scrutiny on data and implementation. His answer — that it largely does — brought a new generation to the movement.

See Also

• Henry George · Progress and Poverty · Objection: Land value can't be assessed accurately

Sources

1. Lars Doucet (2021–22), Does Georgism Work? — wiki summary
2. Lars Doucet (2023), Land Is a Big Deal. landisabigdeal.com
3. Doucet's collected writing at Game of Rent.