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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past century the expansion of banking in advanced economies has been, above all, the expansion of mortgage lending — and the value that lending is secured against is overwhelmingly land, not ...

Wiki · People Robert V. Andelson Philosopher and Georgist scholar who edited 'Critics of Henry George' (1979) and co-authored 'From Wasteland to Promised Land' (1992). Professor of Philosophy at ...