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' ...

Nagarathna's sole dissent rested on two grounds: first, that royalty is a statutory levy by its own terms (MMDR Act §§9, 9A), which makes it a tax regardless of how it is labelled; second, 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% ...

A spatial-econometric study of 20 African and 75 global countries (2000-2020) finds economic sanctions push targeted governments to raise their formal (de jure) tax rate on natural resource rents, ...