German-Argentine merchant and monetary reformer (1862–1930) whose Freiwirtschaft ('free economy') paired demurrage money with public land leasing — a contemporary of Henry George whose land plank ...

A 2026 case study traces how Henry George's site-value-tax idea reached Kenya via South Africa and the British Liberal Party, and finds unimproved site value remains Kenya's principal urban land tax ...

The Show-Me Institute is a free-market think tank founded in 2005 in Clayton, Missouri, by Rex Sinquefield, Crosby Kemper III, and economist Michael Podgursky, affiliated with the national State ...

Katie B. Wilson, co-founder of the Seattle Transit Riders Union, defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell in the November 2025 Seattle mayoral election and took office on January 1, 2026.[5] During her 2025 ...

Between April and June 2026, three US states took legislative action that widened the door to land value taxation at the local level: Virginia (HB 282, signed April 6), Kentucky (HB 607, enacted ...

Originally published on Progress and Poverty on January 29, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. Last week, President Trump gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he ...

Ten weeks after introducing the People's Budget in the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George took the case to a mass Liberal audience at the Edinburgh Castle public house in ...

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 ...

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 · Research The EU ETS Reduced CO2 Emissions Despite Low Prices (Bayer & Aklin) Bayer & Aklin show the EU Emissions Trading System cut roughly 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 between 2008 and 2016 — ...

Mass appraisal is the practice of valuing many properties simultaneously, on a common valuation date, using standardized statistical methods rather than individual expert appraisals. Computer-assisted ...

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 ...