Progress and Poverty
Progress & Poverty, Lars Doucet, Stephen Hoskins, Max Ghenis, Dan Bertolet, Vahid Ahmadi, Wudu Muluneh Yimer, Greg MillerExploring the implications of Georgism in the modern world. Brought to you by the Center for Land Economics
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Policy analyst, former game designer | landeconomics.org | Personal blog at fortressofdoors.com
Urban economist interested in sharing land rents, efficient & equitable housing markets, urbanism and economic geography.
Co-founder & CEO of PolicyEngine, a nonprofit that provides free, open source software to compute the impact of public policy Previously data science @ Google, econ @ MIT, and all things @ UBI Center
Housing abundance policy researcher at Sightline Institute
Research Associate at PolicyEngine | LSE Pre-Doctoral
Wudu Muluneh Yimer is a Lecturer in Real Property Valuation at Bahir Dar University. He researches land economics, land value capture, property taxation, urban finance, and urban governance in Ethiopia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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