Almost all economists, financial analysts, journalists, pundits, bloggers, and armchair cynics will scoff at this prediction. But the cycle exists because people don ...

The 18-year real estate cycle continues to march on right on schedule. There has been a boom-bust real estate cycle since the early 1800s, with a period of about 18 years. Some doubters point to the ...

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 ...

In his article “What is American Exceptionalism?”, Ian Tyrrell writes, “In its classic forms, American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation ...

Originally published on Progress and Poverty on April 5, 2022. Republished on Progress.org with permission. Meet Farouk Al-Kasim, a Norwegian-Iraqi petroleum geologist, Knight of the Royal Norwegian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sharing is a virtuous fundamental principle taught among civilized cultures. Parents often teach their children to share among siblings and schools typically utilize shared resources. Sharing is ...

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