Originally published on Progress and Poverty on September 3, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. There are two ...

The causes of social problems exist on many levels. When we ask why social problems such as poverty, unemployment, crime, and war exist, each time we determine a cause, we can ask "why" again, as ...

The equal right of all to the use of land is as clear as the equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by the fact of existence. For we cannot suppose that some have a right to be in ...

A nine-judge Indian Supreme Court bench ruled 8:1 that mining royalty is contractual consideration, not a tax — overturning 34 years of precedent — with Justice B.V. Nagarathna dissenting alone that ...

Examines how heritage tourism drives housing commodification in Kyoto, Japan, as landowners pursue 'cultural monopoly rent' through selective (de)commodification of residential and commercial property ...

A philosophy paper arguing Locke conflated the value of natural resources with the value labor adds to them, and that George's rent-payment argument turns Nozick's own 'taxation as forced labor' ...

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 · Research LVT and Urban Agglomeration Dynamics Models how a land value tax affects urban agglomeration, finding it can improve both efficiency and equity in city formation. Now peer-reviewed and ...

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation is a 1981 book by the economist Amartya Sen, published by the Clarendon Press for Oxford University Press.[1] It is Sen's foundational ...

The first empirical Latin American LVT capitalization study: 1,419 repeat land sales in Loja, Ecuador show urban-center land prices fall ~2.5% per 1pp rise in the effective tax rate — but ...

A spatial-econometric study of 20 African and 75 global countries (2000-2020) finds economic sanctions push targeted governments to raise their formal (de jure) tax rate on natural resource rents, ...

Mass appraisal is the practice of valuing many properties simultaneously, on a common valuation date, using standardized statistical methods rather than individual expert appraisals. Computer-assisted ...