Renegade Economists Podcast
The ~600-episode Renegade Economists radio show (Sept 2007–Nov 2021) on land tax, banking, and monopoly power, hosted by Karl Fitzgerald on 3CR for Prosper Australia.
Summary
Renegade Economists was a radio show and podcast produced through Prosper Australia and hosted by Karl Fitzgerald. It ran from September 2007 to November 2021 on Melbourne community station 3CR, broadcast on Wednesday evenings, and reached some 600 numbered episodes by its final show.[1][2] Prosper describes its organising question directly: if "'location, location, location' is such a core element to real estate investment strategy, why was it all but ignored in economic theory?"[1]
Coverage
Across its run the show covered land taxation, banking and monopoly power, housing, speculative vacancy, and the 18-year land cycle, typically with an expert guest. It also produced a seven-part Georgist "podcourse" built around Adam Smith's canons of taxation and the beneficiary-pays principle (distinct from Earthsharing's longer podcourse).[1] The final broadcast, Show 601 ("On A Win," 24 November 2021), marked the passage of Victoria's Windfall Gains Tax — a levy on the uplift in land value from rezoning — and closed the series.[2][3] Earlier episodes were transcribed on the Earthsharing website, and the later back-catalogue is archived on Mixcloud.[1]
Why It Matters
The show is one of the largest sustained bodies of Georgist audio anywhere, and a significant archive for following contemporary land-economics debate from the Australian movement that has kept land value taxation politically live — the same movement whose advocacy accompanied Victoria's rezoning windfall levy. It is carried here as a practitioner/advocacy navigation source: the empirical claims aired on it are cited on their own pages, not through the podcast.
Sources
- "Renegade Economists podcast," Prosper Australia — used for the show's dates (Sept 2007–Nov 2021), 3CR broadcast, host, organising question (quoted verbatim, ≤50 words), the seven-part Georgist podcourse, and the Mixcloud/Earthsharing archives. prosper.org.au/radio
- "Renegade Economists," 3CR Community Radio — used for the episode numbering (through Show ~600, Oct–Nov 2021) and the November 2021 conclusion of the series. 3cr.org.au/economists
- "On a Win — Discussing the Windfall Gains Tax" (Renegade Economists Show 601), Prosper Australia, 24 November 2021 — used for the final episode's date, number, and subject (Victoria's Windfall Gains Tax). prosper.org.au/2021/11/on-a-win