San Francisco is just the worst-case example, and Georgism/LVT just one fashionable solution, but everywhere you look, the root cause of a lot of economic malaise seems to be regressive land rights laws.
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You sound Hayekian to me
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I don’t think I am from what little I know. I’m pro fairly big government.
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cf HernandoDeSoto http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/HernandoDeSoto …
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Yeah that’s a better trailhead than Georgism I think
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Hope it doesn’t come to that kind of shitty reform path. This is close to the idea that the Black Death was “good” for Europe and the primary reason for the Renaissance. If that’s the only way put, the US is kinda screwed
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Hmmm. Not sure what to make of this. Private property's origin is landowners enclosing common space in England precisely at the time of the origin of capitalist social relations (EM Wood, "The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View" 1999)
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There’s a fascinating interview on Econ Talk podcast recently with Glen Weyl that argues for a funky setup where most taxes are replaced by land use tax. Well worth a listen.
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The key idea is that land users declare the value of the land themselves (and are taxed based on that) but others can buy it from them for the declared price.
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