The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a non-profit research and education organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the leading academic institution studying land policy, land economics, ...

There's an alternative to economics, as there is to astrology and alchemy. Not just a discipline, it's a real science, with answers. Want to know how economies work, why sometimes they don’t, and what ...

Joseph Stiglitz (b. 1943) is an American economist, winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank. Though not a self-described Georgist, his work provides some ...

Henry George's accessible 1883 follow-up to Progress and Poverty, expanding the social and political implications of land monopoly for a popular audience.

Excessive traffic fines create distrust between the police and the people. What’s needed is tax reform that eliminates the financial incentive for taxation by citation. “Taxation by citation” is the ...

Josie Faass, director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, put together a moving tribute to Dr. Fred Foldvary, Ph.D., who recently passed on June 5, 2021. Dr. Fred Foldvary has been a long-time ...

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 ...

This 2025 paper models the effect of land value taxation on urban agglomeration — how cities form, grow, and allocate people and firms across space. The authors find that an LVT can improve both ...

Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty in 1879, it becomes a great success, and it catches the eye of attorney Thomas Shearman, who suggests the “single tax” label. George approves, and one of ...

Most people — even many economists — don’t understand that the real estate market is the primary cause of economic downturns. This is an excerpt from Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World, ...

When we practice and observe religious rituals and beliefs, it is all too common to only think about the superficial appearances. Understanding the underlying deep reality of religion requires some ...

The landed aristocracy of Prussia was unable to borrow funds for reconstruction. Cooperative mortgage credit associations were created to deal with the crisis. During the 1700s the German-speaking ...