Originally published on Progress and Poverty on October 22, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. Local ...

This Progress.org article — indexed under the title "The 18-Year Pattern Predicting 2027's Market Crash" at the URL slug 18-6-year-real-estate-cycle — is a popular restatement of the 18.6-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

Land Value Tax can generate and recoup the funds needed for a Citizen's Dividend Basic Income, while a Citizen's Dividend Basic Income makes a clear case for taxing land values. There are many people ...

§ 1. Given a race of beings having like claims to pursue the objects of their desires-given a world adapted to the gratification of those desires- a world into which such beings are similarly born, ...

Per the SSRN abstract, the paper "simulates various reform scenarios with tax rates ranging from 0.5 to 5 percent, incorporating a citizen's dividend and exempt bands." Under the budget-neutral ...

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, ...

Michael Hudson (b. 1939) is an American economist known for his analysis of debt, finance, and economic rent. He frames the modern economy as a contest between productive activity and rent extraction ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is a reprint. Originally published April 2005. “.. in England the land-tax at this moment produces half a million less than it did a century ago, while the taxes on consumption ...

The Power to Tax (Cambridge University Press, 1980; reprinted as Vol. 9 of the Liberty Fund Collected Works of James M. Buchanan) is Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan's constitutional theory of ...