A proposed planned city in the American desert, announced by billionaire Marc Lore in 2021, whose land ownership model — 'Equitism' — is explicitly based on Henry George's proposal that a community ...

George opens by rejecting the dominant late-Victorian explanation of civilization's advance: the Spencerian view that progress is a slow evolutionary transformation of human nature itself, fixed by ...

An increasing share of corporate profit in the United States (and, more weakly, other developed economies) is economic rent — returns above what is needed to compensate capital and effort in a ...

British Columbia's provincial Crown corporation, created in 1974, that independently values every property in the province for property-tax purposes — cited by Common Wealth Canada as ready-made ...

The wiki's DST incidence page covers the theory (Cui & Hashimzade's location-specific-rent rationale) and the sharpest single incidence estimate (Muddasani & Langenmayr's finding that Amazon passed ...

Arnott & Stiglitz (1979) model a city with identical individuals and a single pure local public good. Population size determines two countervailing effects: Increasing returns to scale in public goods ...

Land rises 14 years, falls 4 — and has for 200 years. The cause is rising land prices becoming unsustainable for productive economic activity. The remedy has been known since 1879. The next major ...

Liberation theology is a movement in Christian theology, rooted in mid-20th-century Latin American Catholicism, that interprets the Gospel as a call to liberate the poor from conditions of structural ...

This 2025 paper models the effect of land value taxation on urban agglomeration — how cities form, grow, and allocate people and firms across space. The authors find that an LVT can improve both ...

Proponents argue betterment levies are politically attractive because they target a visible, discrete windfall — the jump in land value when planning permission is granted — making the case for public ...

Quadratic voting (QV) is a collective-decision mechanism in which each voter is given a budget of "voice credits" and may buy votes for or against a proposal at a quadratic price: buying n votes costs ...

Someone just threw an objection at you. Find it here: what they say, what you say back in one or two sentences, the honest concession to make first where the criticism has real force, and the page to ...