Wiki · People David Ricardo Classical economist (1772–1823) whose Law of Rent — rent as a price-determined differential surplus — is the analytical engine Henry George generalized, and whose ...

In this 2009 paper Mason Gaffney addresses the most common revenue objection to Georgism head-on: is there enough land rent to actually fund government? His answer is an emphatic yes. He argues that ...

This 2021 CEPR discussion paper (DP 16652; also SSRN 3954888) by Charles Goodhart, Michael Hudson, Michael Kumhof, and Nicolaus Tideman models the macroeconomic effects of shifting the tax base toward ...

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 ...

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a non-profit research and education organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the leading academic institution studying land policy, land economics, ...

Land or housing deliberately held empty in anticipation of capital gains rather than rented or developed — the visible symptom LVT targets. Covers the option-value theory of why owners wait, the ...

The Claim The rising share of national income flowing to "capital" in developed economies — popularised by Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century — is, when decomposed, almost entirely a ...

Gaffney marshals archival evidence that early American economics departments were funded by landed and corporate interests, and that influential economists (notably John Bates Clark) reframed economic ...

This essay from the Progress and Poverty Substack compiles the surprising breadth of mainstream economic support for Georgist conclusions — useful for countering the perception that land value ...

Under optimal conditions, the land rent generated by public goods equals their cost — so capturing land rent can finance them with no other tax.

A land value tax requires assessing land separately from the buildings on it. Critics argue this is impractical: in dense cities, land rarely sells unimproved, so there are few "pure land" sales to ...

Its measured tone — neither advocacy nor dismissal — makes it the most cited practical reference when officials consider land or split-rate taxation. A library of essays, learning paths, and a wiki on ...