A patent or copyright is a government-granted temporary monopoly — a deliberately-created rent. It is the most contested rent in the Geoist file, because here the rent is supposed to BE the incentive.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies' landmark 1978 committee report, chaired by Nobel laureate James Meade, arguing for a shift from taxing income to taxing expenditure — and setting out the cash-flow ...

Summary Pete Daniel is an American historian and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He is the author of Dispossession: Discrimination Against African ...

Ecological economist who co-developed steady-state economics and served as senior economist at the World Bank. Author of 'Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics' (1999). His work on ...

Princeton historian and author of 'Rendezvous with Destiny' (1952), a sweeping history of American reform from the Civil War to the New Deal. Goldman documented Henry George's role in the reform ...

Journalist, entrepreneur (co-founded Working Assets/CREDO Mobile), and author of 'Capitalism 3.0' (2006) and 'With Liberty and Dividends for All' (2014). Advocate for commons trusts and universal ...

Wiki · People Charles Albro Barker Professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the definitive 1955 biography 'Henry George' (Oxford University Press). Barker framed George as a ...

British Nobel-laureate economist (1907–1995) who reached a Geoist-adjacent conclusion from Keynesian premises: the state should own a large share of productive capital and pay its return to every ...

Author of 'Tolstoy: Principles for a New World Order' (1992), published by Shepheard-Walwyn with Fred Harrison's encouragement. Redfearn traced the intellectual connection between Tolstoy's moral ...

Corporate tax bases that exempt the normal return and tax only above-normal returns — the ACE and cash-flow designs — demonstrably remove the tax subsidy to leverage and, in the expensing variant, ...

Historian and author of 'Commoners' (1993) on English enclosure and common rights 1700–1820. Professor Emerita at York University, Toronto. Her work documents the lived experience of those who lost ...

A corporate tax design that deducts a notional 'normal' return on equity, leaving only above-normal returns — economic rent by construction — in the tax base. Tried in Belgium, Italy, Croatia and ...