Originally published on Progress and Poverty on September 3, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. There are two things we like to point out here at the Center for Land Economics: the ...

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wiki · Research How to Tax Business? Economic Rents, Legibility, and the Corporate-Pass-Through Divide (Fox, Liscow & Love, 2026) As business taxation converges toward taxing only economic rent, ...

The 18-year land cycle is the observation that real-estate land prices, and the credit that finances them, tend to move in a recurrent cycle of roughly 18 years: a long upswing, a brief mid-cycle dip, ...

The first study to find a significant causal effect of a carbon tax on emissions. Using synthetic control, Andersson finds Sweden's 1991 carbon tax (plus fuel VAT) cut transport CO2 by almost 11% ...