Progress and Poverty
Progress & Poverty, Jeff Fong, Lars Doucet, Stephen Hoskins, Max Ghenis, Greg Miller, Dan Bertolet, Vahid AhmadiExploring the implications of Georgism in the modern world. Brought to you by the Center for Land Economics
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Book Review: The Natural Dividend
In 2023, Norwegian Researchers Jonathon Moses and Anne Margrethe Brigham wrote an excellent book called The Natural Dividend, whose basic argument is that natural resources are a big deal. If I had to summarize it in one sentence, it would...
New York Authorizes a Land Value Tax to Fund Transit and More — Landscape 9
Welcome back to the Landscape, my recurring roundup of the momentum, legislation, and news shaping land value taxation. You can find the last installment, Landscape 8, where two states passed enabling legislation in a single week.
A quick...
You Can Now Vibe Code Land Value Tax Modeling
Land value taxes are easier to model than ever, and now AI agents can do most of the driving with new updates to LVTShift, an open-source coding repository maintained by us at the Center for Land Economics.
In its output, you can get parce...
Land value taxes are winning: LVT Landscape Live
On June 3rd, 2026, the Center for Land Economics and the Progress and Poverty Institute teamed up again for the latest in our “LVT Landscape LIVE” series, where we update the community on what’s happening nationwide in land value tax (LVT)...
How replacing council tax with a flat land value tax would affect households in the UK
Guest post from Vahid Ahmadi and Max Ghenis of PolicyEngine
We used PolicyEngine UK, our open-source model of the UK tax-and-benefit system, to ask a question: what would happen if Britain scrapped council tax and replaced it with a fl...
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Your friendly neighborhood Georgist. Managing editor, Progress & Poverty, President, Young Georgists of America.
Cities, technology, and the future | Board Chair @ YIMBY Action, Board Advisor @ the Center for Land Economics
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
Land is a Big Deal | landeconomics.org.
Housing abundance policy researcher at Sightline Institute
Research Associate at PolicyEngine | LSE Pre-Doctoral
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