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 ...

In this 2018 essay, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reviewed Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl and enthusiastically endorsed its central proposal — the Harberger tax / COST — as an extension of ...

George wrote the book at the height of the Irish Land War (1879–82), the mass agitation led by the Irish National Land League — founded by Michael Davitt and presided over by Charles Stewart Parnell — ...

Land Value Taxation Around the World (3rd edition, 2001), edited by Robert V. Andelson, is the definitive comparative reference on land value taxation as actually implemented across the globe. It ...

Henry George's 1892 critique of Herbert Spencer, who had endorsed common rights to land then recanted — a foundational statement of the philosophical case for land as common property.

Why It Matters It identifies where the evidence is strong (e.g. land's share of wealth, incidence) and where more work is needed (assessment methods, affordability effects, transition design, macro ...

In this 2023 episode of the Dwarkesh Podcast, host Dwarkesh Patel interviews Lars Doucet about Georgism, land value taxation, and assessment. At roughly 1h40m, it is frequently recommended as the best ...

This 1977 essay by Joseph Stiglitz is where the term "Henry George Theorem" was coined. It is the foundational theoretical statement that a single tax on land rent can finance public goods. Stiglitz ...

Land Matters is the podcast of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, covering land use, property and land taxation, housing, climate, and urban economics with researchers and practitioners. As the ...

Doucet's review reintroduced George's 142-year-old argument to a large, analytically demanding audience — rationalists, effective altruists, and tech readers — who had never taken land seriously as an ...

The Science of Political Economy (1898) is Henry George's most ambitious theoretical work — an attempt to rebuild the whole of political economy from first principles. Left unfinished at his death in ...

Noah Smith, the economist and widely-read blogger (Noahpinion), has written several influential pieces advancing land value taxation to a mainstream economics-literate audience. Smith's engagement ...