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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In obscure years before the Great War, two paradigms collided. Socialism versus the Single Tax set the trajectory of the twentieth century - enterprise, invention and productivity struck by depression ...

Because values are purely subjective, attempts by governments to control prices or to push prices up or down with taxes and subsidies reduce social wellbeing. One of the axioms or premises of ...