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Ralph J Hodosh's avatar

Georgism is very interesting but how would its principles help a city like Detroit where there is almost free land begging for developers? From a Georgism perspective, the land would be taxed as being worthless and still the developers won't line up because so very few want to live or do business there.

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Michael Berkowitz's avatar

By the theory expounded here, how did we ever get from the Gilded Age of fabulously-wealthy landowners and starving proletariats to today's affluent society?

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