The Progress and Poverty Institute (PPI) is the current name of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation — the century-old institution established in 1925 to promote the economic ideas of Henry George. The ...

A sovereign wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund that collects and manages public revenues — typically from natural-resource rents — converting them into a perpetual financial asset. The fund ...

Rochet and Tirole formalize a setting in which a platform charges per-transaction fees to two sides of a market (e.g., cardholders and merchants in a payment-card network, or readers and advertisers ...

Common Wealth Canada's proposal for a ~$2-trillion Canadian sovereign wealth fund, capitalised from resource and publicly-created rents, paying every citizen a universal dividend — a modern, ...

Albouy's Rosen-Roback model infers city-level land rents, productivity, and total amenity value from U.S. wage and housing-cost data, finding productivity — not quality of life — drives most ...

A U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis working paper estimating the total value of land in the contiguous United States at roughly $23 trillion (2009), using hedonic methods rather than the older residual ...

Hamilton (1975, 1976) argues that zoning converts the local property tax into an efficient benefit tax for local services, with no excess burden — complicating simple landlord-incidence stories. These ...

The LVIT's intellectual roots trace to Sun Yat-sen, founding figure of the Republic of China, whose principle of "equalization of land rights" (one of his Three Principles of the People) was directly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karl Fitzgerald is an Australian Georgist campaigner, researcher, and broadcaster, for many years the most visible public voice of Prosper Australia.