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note: "documents" on this website refers to the collection of 200+ Georgist documents, including the 25 or so designated as "essential documents." As time goes on, other kinds of studies and articles will also appear on the website, in other categories.

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This listing is alphabetical, by author:

Eminent Domain and Government Giveaways — Wyn Achenbaum
Slavery — A. J. O. (believed to be Mark Twain) [Essential Document]
Some Background on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation — Pat Aller
From Wasteland to Promised Land: Liberation Theology for a Post-Marxist World — Robert V. Andelson and James M. Dawsey; synopsis by Lindy Davies
Henry George and the Reconstruction of Capitalism — Robert V. Andelson
The Earth is the Lord's! — Robert V. Andelson

Property Tax -- Cause of Unemployment — Herbert J. G. Bab
Capitalism 3.0 — Peter Barnes

Equity in Assessment Practices — Bill Batt
Property Tax Relief Measures: Answers to the "Poor Widow " Argument • pdf version —Bill Batt
Two Property Tax Relief Measures: Land Value Taxation to Stabilize and Deferral as Provisional Tax Relief • pdf version — Bill Batt
Property Tax Commission White Paper, for the NYS Commission on Real Property Tax Relief • pdf version — Bill Batt
Comments on the Middle Class STAR Rebate Program, to the Assembly Standing Committee on Real Property Taxation — Bill Batt
Comment on Parts of the NYS Legislative Tax Study Commission's 1985 study: “Who Pays New York Taxes?” — a 2007 retrospective on a 1985 study — Bill Batt
Solution to School Finance Equity Dilemma in NY State: A Response to the Court of Appeals Decision to Provide about $4 – 6 Billion to the Underfunded School Systems — Bill Batt
Explaining the Virtues of a Land Value Tax for Those Who Never Had Economics 101 • pdf version — Bill Batt
Generational Equity in Housing: Property Tax Considerations • pdf version — Bill Batt
On the Futility of a Tax Cap • pdf version — Bill Batt
A Sound Property Tax Solution — Bill Batt
Painless Taxation — Bill Batt
Testimony before Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Rules Hearing — Bill Batt
Saving the Commons in an Age of Plunder • pdf version — Bill Batt
Stemming Sprawl: The Fiscal Approach — Bill Batt
Who Says Cities are Poor? They Just Don't Know How to Tax Their Wealth! — Bill Batt
The Fallacy of the "Three-Legged Stool" Metaphor — Bill Batt
Fallacies of the Slippery Slope Argument — Bill Batt
The Compatibility of Georgist Economics and Ecological Economics — Bill Batt
How Our Towns Got That Way— Bill Batt
How the Railroads Got Us on the Wrong Economic Track — Bill Batt
The Merits of Site Value Taxation — Bill Batt
The Nexus of Transportation, Economic Rent, and Land Use — Bill Batt
Water and Privatization — Bill Batt
The Three Keys to Containing Sprawl — Hanno Beck
Bathroom Policy — Hanno Beck
What The "Polluter Pays" Principle Implies — Hanno Beck
The Up-To-Date Primer: A First Book of Lessons for Little Political Economists, In Words of One Syllable — J. W. Bengough
On True Political Economy (The Whole-Hog Book) — J. W. Bengough

Preface to Significant Paragraphs from Progress & Poverty — Harry Gunnison Brown
Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time — Robert H. Browne
Henry George and the Single-Tax —William F. Buckley, Jr.
Home, Dear Home — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Proposition 13 and the Wall Street Journal — Warren F. Buffett

My Introduction to Henry George — Marjorie Carter
A Clarion Call to Sanity, to Honesty, to Justice — Weld Carter
An Introduction to Henry George— Weld Carter
Land Price as a Cause of Poverty — Winston Churchill
Churchill's Radical Decade
The People's Land — excerpt from The People's Rights — Winston Churchill
review of The People's Rights
Geoism and the Practice of Public Economics — Edward H. Clarke
The Great Adventure — S. James Clarkson
Unemployment and Our Revenue Problem — John Sturgis Codman
Uncivilized — Edmund Vance Cooke
22 — Steven B. Cord
The Printer and the Riddle — Joseph Cottler
Geolibertarianism in Rhyme — John Cowan

How to Abolish Unfair Taxation — Clarence Darrow
The Land Belongs to the People — Clarence Darrow

The Cat in New York — Lindy Davies
Ownership and the Law — Lindy Davies
Socialism, Capitalism, and Geoism — Lindy Davies
The Top Ten Reasons Why Land is More Important than Ever — Lindy Davies
Who Was Henry George? — Agnes George de Mille
An Appreciation of Henry George — John Dewey
Steps to Economic Recovery — John Dewey
The Homeownership Cycle — Ed Dodson
Owning Land: Key to Wealth Building? — Edward J. Dodson

An Open Letter to Wayne Swan, Federal Labor Spokesman, on Family and Community Services — Maurie Fabrikant
A Catechism of Natural Taxation, from Principles of Natural Taxation (1917) — Charles B. Fillebrown

Eighteen Fallacies — Mason Gaffney
Two-rate in reverse — Mason Gaffney
Bottling the air — Mason Gaffney
A Cannan Gets the Range — Mason Gaffney
California's Governor-Elect — Mason Gaffney
Is There a Conspiracy in the Teaching of Economics and History within the American Education System? — interview with Mason Gaffney
Canada's System of Revenue Sharing — Mason Gaffney
Economics in Support of Environmentalism — Mason Gaffney
Privatizing Land Without Giveaway — Mason Gaffney
The Partiality of Indexing Capital Gains — Mason Gaffney
Property Tax: Biases and Reforms — Mason Gaffney
The Property Tax is a Progressive Tax — Mason Gaffney
The Relationship Between Property Taxation and the Concentration of Farm Land Ownership — Mason Gaffney

Taxation of Interjurisdictional E-Commerce — Mason Gaffney
The Taxable Surplus of Land: Measuring, Guarding and Gathering It — Mason Gaffney
Unearned increments and reality in California's recall election — Mason Gaffney
What happens when a state radically slashes its property tax? — Mason Gaffney
Who Owns Southern California? — Mason Gaffney  

Significant Paragraphs from Progress & Poverty — Henry George (1928 abridgement by Harry Gunnison Brown)| PDF
Social Problems: a book of essays — Henry George (1883)
Gems From George (a/k/a The Economics and Philosophy of Henry George, 1839-1897: Being Memorable Passages from his Writings and Addresses).
Causes of Business Depression — Henry George
The Common Sense of Taxation (1881) — Henry George
The Condition of Labor (pdf) (html) — Henry George
The Labor Question ( full page pdf - 21 pages) (bookletized pdf - 32 pages, 8 sheets) — Henry George
The Crime of Poverty — Henry George
The Great Debate: The Single Tax versus Social Democracy — Which will most benefit the people? — Henry George and H. M. Hyndman
Thy Kingdom Come — Henry George
Thou Shalt Not Steal — Henry George
This World is the Creation of God — Henry George
How to Help the Unemployed — Henry George
The Irish Land Question — Henry George
Justice the Object — Taxation the Means — Henry George
The Law of Rent — Henry George
Moses — Apostle of Freedom — Henry George
Ode to Liberty — Henry George
The Single Tax: What It Is and Why We Urge It — Henry George
The Land for the People — Henry George
What the Railroad Will Bring Us — Henry George
Why The Landowner Cannot Shift The Tax on Land Values — Henry George
The Wages of Labor — Henry George
Songs of the Great Adventure — poetry of Luke North (James Hartness Griffes)
Explaining Rent — Everett Gross, and others
Estimating Land Values — Ted Gwartney
A Free Market Strategy to Reduce Sprawl — Ted Gwartney

Ethical Land Tenure — Alanna Hartzok
Real Estate and the Capital Gains Debate — Michael Hudson and Kris Feder
The Lies of the Land: How and why land gets undervalued — Michael Hudson

A Lay Sermon —Robert Green Ingersoll

A Synopsis of Henry George's Progress & Poverty— Al Katzenberger
Why a landlord can not just pass on the cost of LVT to the renter — Bryan Kavanagh
The Rev. James Huntington and Henry George's ideas — James Kiefer

Preface to Ogilvie’s Essay on The Right of Property in Land — D.C. MacDonald
The Ambulance Down in the Valley — Joseph Malins
Licenses to Steal are Expensive: Speculation in Commercial Radio Broadcast Privileges in the United States — Chuck Metalitz

Henry George: Unorthodox American — Albert Jay Nock
Songs of the Great Adventure — poetry of Luke North (pen name for James Hartness Griffes)
Back to the Land — Most Rev. Dr Thomas Nulty

An Essay on the Right of Property in Land — William Ogilvie (edited by Peter Gibb)

Agrarian Justice — Thomas Paine 
Outlines of Louis F. Post's Lectures, with Illustrative Notes and Charts (1894) — Louis F. Post
Seeing the Cat — Louis F. Post
House & Home Magazine issue on Land — Perry Prentice

Proving Title — author unknown

Theodore Roosevelt and the Single Tax
Not a Single Tax! — Charles T. Root
The Fruits of the Earth — Rousseau
Wrong Diagnosis Underlies Post's Pessimism on Smart Growth — Walter Rybeck
Combating Modern-day Feudalism: Land as God’s Gift — Walter Rybeck and Ronald Pasquariello
Have We Forgotten The Foundation? — Walter Rybeck
The Uncertain Future of the Metropolis — Walt Rybeck

What Affordable Housing Problem? — Walter Rybeck

An Address delivered upon the 100th anniversary of the birth of HENRY GEORGE — the Hon. Samuel Seabury
The Consequences of Land Speculation are Tenantry and Debt on the Farms, and Slums and Luxury in the Cities — Upton Sinclair
What To Do About the Real Estate Bubble: After the Housing Bubble Bursts, Fix It! — Jeffery Johnson Smith
Sharing Natural Rents to Sustain Human Society — Jeffery J. Smith
Leaking Economic Value of Communities — Jeffery J. Smith
What the Left Must Do: Share the Surplus — Jeff Smith
How Sharing Earth Brought Peace — Jeffery Smith
Planning by Markets — Jeffery J. Smith
Subsidies At Their Worst: Privileges — Jeffery Smith
Giving Life to the Property Tax Shift (PTS) — Jeffery J. Smith and Kris Nelson
The Property Tax Shift Q&A — Jeff Smith
How Profit Shapes Urban Space — Jeff Smith
Share Rent, Transform Society: Jeff Smith's remarks at Who Owns America? II
Joseph Stiglitz: 2002 Interview — Joseph Stiglitz and Christopher Williams
The Political Economy of Land: Putting Henry George in His Place — Frank Stilwell and Kirrily Jordan
Are you a Real Libertarian, or a ROYAL Libertarian? — Dan Sullivan

Bill of Economic Rights and Obligations — Nic Tideman
Applications of Land Value Taxation to Problems of Environmental Protection, Congestion, Efficient Resource Use, Population, and Economic Growth — Nicolaus Tideman
Being Just While Conceptions of Justice are Changing: 7 Cases — T. Nicolaus Tideman
The Ethics of Coercion in Public Finance — Nicolaus Tideman
Coercion Decision Tree
The Case for Taxing Land — Nicolaus Tideman
Farm Land Rent and the Renewal of Rural Society: The Self-Financing Model — Nicolaus Tideman
Global Economic Justice followed by Creating Global Economic Justice — Nicolaus Tideman
Basic Principles of Geonomics — Nicolaus Tideman
The Political Economy of the Gospels — Nicolaus Tideman
Improving Efficiency and Preventing Exploitation in Taxing and Spending Decisions — Nicolaus Tideman
The Interaction of Moral and Economic Approaches to Ecological Protection — Nicolaus Tideman
Land Taxation and Efficient Land Speculation — Nicolaus Tideman
Market-Based Systems for Assigning Rental Value to Land — Nicolaus Tideman
The Constitutional Conflict Between Protecting Expectations and Moral Evolution — Nicolaus Tideman
The Morality of Taxation: The Local Case — Nicolaus Tideman
The Political Economy of Moral Evolution — Nicolaus Tideman
Peace, Justice, and Economic Reform — Nicolaus Tideman
Private Possession as an Alternative to Rental and Private Ownership for Agricultural Land — Nicolaus Tideman
Revenue Sharing under Land Value Taxation — Nicolaus Tideman
Comments on the NTIA's Comprehensive Policy Review of Use and Management of the Radio Frequency Spectrum — Nicolaus Tideman
The Structure of an Inquiry into the Attractiveness of A Social Order Inspired by the Ideas of Henry George — Nicolaus Tideman
The Case for Site Value Rating — Nicolaus Tideman
Basic Tenets of the Incentive Taxation Philosophy — Nicolaus Tideman
Using Tax Policy to Promote Urban Growth — Nicolaus Tideman
The Shape of a World Inspired by Henry George — Nicolaus Tideman
Leo Tolstoy
Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development: summaries of 12 books
Archimedes — Mark Twain
Slavery — A.J.O [likely Mark Twain]

 

 
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