Wiki · Places Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ran a split-rate property tax from 1913 to 2001 and sharply raised its land rate in 1979–80 — the setting for the most-cited US study of land taxation ...

The world's first Garden City (founded 1903 in Hertfordshire, England), built to Ebenezer Howard's plan of holding land in trust so that rising ground rents fund the town's own services rather than ...

British Columbia's provincial Crown corporation, created in 1974, that independently values every property in the province for property-tax purposes — cited by Common Wealth Canada as ready-made ...

Founded in London in 1884, Britain's oldest political think tank drew its early economics heavily from Henry George's rent theory before broadening into a wider programme of gradualist state socialism ...

From the 1750s, enclosure by individual Act of Parliament became the dominant method, culminating in the general Inclosure Act 1773 and the Inclosure Act 1845, which created a standing Board of ...

Letchworth is the movement's one long-running natural experiment in community land-value capture, and its record is mixed in an instructive way. The land-capture machinery survived; the wider utopian ...

Richard Vague — a former banking executive and Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking and Securities — surveys financial crises in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and China from the ...

George opens by rejecting the dominant late-Victorian explanation of civilization's advance: the Spencerian view that progress is a slow evolutionary transformation of human nature itself, fixed by ...

A quote lands in a room where a citation doesn't. This is the advocate's supply of verbatim, verified lines — every quotation below is transcribed word-for-word and linked to the wiki page that holds ...

The wiki's DST incidence page covers the theory (Cui & Hashimzade's location-specific-rent rationale) and the sharpest single incidence estimate (Muddasani & Langenmayr's finding that Amazon passed ...

Someone just threw an objection at you. Find it here: what they say, what you say back in one or two sentences, the honest concession to make first where the criticism has real force, and the page to ...

Tax-exempt investment vehicles created by US law in 1960 whose assets grew twentyfold in the early 1970s, financed largely by bank lending, before a wave of defaults in the mid-1970s — cited by ...