Posts by: Fred Foldvary

No Alternative to Public Revenue from Land Rent

By On April 27, 2012 · 32 Comments · In Economics, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land, Uncategorized

Finer points aside, nobody has offered a specific and coherent and realistic more efficient and equitable alternative for public revenue than land rent or land value.

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The Geolibertarian Ethics of Land Rent

By On April 25, 2012 · 35 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land

I coined the term “geolibertarian” in 1981 to designate the branch of libertarian philosophy which deems the natural rent to equally belong to human beings.

Public finance theory prescribes land rent as an efficient source of public revenue.  The issue here is whether there is harmony between what is economically efficient and what is morally [...]

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