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 ...

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 Supreme Court ruled that rights may not be taxed. Therefore the right to engage in labor should not be taxed. A moral right is a correlative or flip side of a moral wrong. The right to have X ...

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 ...