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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2020s will inflict a lot of pain due to policy mistakes of the previous years and governments will be forced into long overdue corrections, which start with an LVT. A decade after the late 2000s ...

Hotelling's welfare-economics case rested on a simple point: whenever price exceeds marginal cost, some buyers who value the good above its true cost of production are excluded, which is a deadweight ...

In economic theory, the spending multiplier is the amount of output generated by spending. If you spend $100 for shoes, the seller orders $100 of new shoes, and that generates $100 of shoe product. In ...

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 ...