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January 2024

Groundly's Ground-Rent Grift
Georgists generally don't question whether property managers, developers, or others involved in real estate earn at least part of what they get to keep…
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Janning⭐
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What Should be Exempt from a Land Value Tax?
The main Georgist policy proposal is the imposition of a full land value tax. Generally, taxes should be simple and free from exemptions, because tax…
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Benedict Springbett
17
Henry George and Sun Yat-sen: A Global Legacy of Land Reform
Henry George was Gilded Age America’s most famous economist. His magnum opus, Progress and Poverty, presented a utopian, reformist route to prosperity…
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Reed Schwartz
9

December 2023

The Modern Georgism of Respected Economists Part 3/3: Leon Walras
Alongside Carl Menger and William Stanley Jevons, the French economist Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras was a founding father of the Marginalist Revolution. The…
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CB
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The Modern Georgism of Respected Economists Part 2/3: Harry Gunnison Brown
The Georgist economist Harry Gunnison Brown is underappreciated today but wasn’t particularly unknown in his own time. In Harry Gunnison Brown: An…
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CB
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The Modern Georgism of Respected Economists Part 1/3: Joseph Stiglitz
Georgism faces something of an image problem. A common perception is that it’s a “crank” movement unsupported by credible authorities in economics…
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CB
12

November 2023

Progress & Poverty Goes to New York
Plus a welcome & intro for our New York Times visitors
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Joseph Addington
5
Land Value Reparations for South Africa
South Africa’s people are enduring civil instability unseen since Apartheid. Civil unrest in 2021 left 354 people dead. This instability is set to usher…
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Peter Courtney
2

October 2023

Land Value Tax Supporters in Michigan: Help Us Win!
The Michigan legislature is currently in the process of deciding on a bill that would allow cities like Detroit to implement a split-rate property tax…
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CB
1
How YIMBYism Can Pave The Way For Georgism
An order of operations for land-use reform
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Jeff Fong
9
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