Originally published on Progress and Poverty on September 3, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. There are two ...

A London-based Georgist economist and author affiliated with the School of Economic Science, known for his book on Hong Kong's land-financed public transit and infrastructure model, and for policy ...

Summary "Value switching: Extracting profit from the city," by Laurence Troy, Bill Randolph, and Simon Pinnegar (UNSW City Futures Research Centre), appeared in Environment and Planning F, 2025, as ...

Quantifies what a live 2026 Ohio ballot proposal to eliminate property tax entirely would require in replacement revenue: an 8.24% flat state income tax (10.29% combined with local) or a 13.36% state ...

Gramado, Brazil's masterplan synchronizes Transferable Development Rights with Payment for Ecosystem Services — the first known integration of the two instruments — using an 'Equivalent Biodiversity ...

Freeden's method distinguishes core concepts (without which a debate has no coherent meaning) from adjacent concepts (which give the core specificity). Shepherd identifies land value, community, ...

A landlord cannot raise rents to pass a land value tax on to tenants. The tax is borne by the landowner, showing up as a lower land sale price and lower net rental income — not as higher rents. Doucet ...

"Capital Structure and Taxes: What Happens When You (Also) Subsidize Equity?" by Frédéric Panier, Francisco Pérez-González, and Pablo Villanueva (working paper, December 2015; presented at the BIS ...

A New York State law enacted in 2016 authorizes three distinct value-capture approaches for transit projects, all already on the books rather than requiring new legislation: ...

Peer-reviewed vacant-land-sales index that values all developable Manhattan land at roughly $1.47 trillion in 2014 — a concrete data point in the aggregate-land-value span Doucet surveys, and a ...

The book's contents are not independently reproduced here, but IAAO's own Course 300 syllabus — built directly on this textbook — outlines eight chapters' worth of learning objectives, which give a ...