Marshall's term for returns that look like rent in the short run but are incentive payments in the long run — the reward that motivated a sunk investment. The distinction between pure rent and ...

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 ...

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner (Harvard University Press, 2005; paperback 2007) is a legal history of the transfer of land from American Indians to non ...

Public Revenue Without Taxation is a book by Ronald Burgess, published by Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd, London, in 1993. Burgess acknowledges indebtedness to the late Colin Clark, Director of the ...

QJE study matching a panel of every US inventor since 1920 to historical state tax rates: higher personal and corporate income taxes reduce the quantity, quality, and location of inventive activity.

Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights is a book by Pete Daniel, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2013 (ISBN 978-1-4696-0201-1) ...

Dwyer's Australian Tax Forum study estimating that Australian land and resource rents are large enough to replace existing taxation — the most-cited national revenue-capacity calculation in the modern ...

This is where the narrative most needs honesty, and the framework for this page is explicit that the challenge is the load-bearing section: evasion of a land tax does not vanish — it mutates. The ...

This narrative deploys the evidence collected on LVT improves housing affordability and split-rate increases construction. Read those pages for the underlying studies.

A boom-bust cycle is a recurrent pattern in which economic activity expands vigorously, asset prices rise, credit grows, and then a reversal — sometimes sudden — produces recession, falling asset ...

The land-as-commons tradition holds that land, by its nature, is not legitimately subject to exclusive private ownership in the same way that products of labour are. Rather, land is a common ...

The two laws are one mechanism seen from opposite sides: rent is everything above the margin; wages are set at it. This is why Georgists treat the margin as the analytical core of the claim that land ...