Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later - By Lars Doucet.

Five years after his prize-winning ACX review of Progress and Poverty, Lars Doucet returns in a guest post to revisit his case for a land value tax: what he got right, where he has changed his mind about tax pass-through and land assessment, the new laws in Virginia and Kentucky, and how writing about Georgism became his full-time job. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:12 - I. Progress and Poverty * 04:03 - II. LVT Momentum is Growing * 07:11 - III. My Theory of Change Was Wrong * 07:32 - Overrated: winning online arguments * 09:15 - Underrated: doing policymakers’ homework for them * 17:11 - IV. Does Georgism work? * 17:43 - 1. Is Land a Big Deal? * 18:40 - Korea is a Big Deal * 21:16 - What About Zoning? * 26:02 - 2. Can Land Value Tax Be Passed on to Tenants? * 32:06 - 3. Assessing the Value of Land * 33:10 - Maybe Just Send Your Office to South Korea * 37:49 - There’s No Single Magic Algorithm * 45:12 - Horizontal Uniformity * 48:39 - Whatever you do, keep values up to date * 53:24 - V. Why did Historical Georgism disappear? * 55:37 - VI. I Guess This is My Life Now * 59:26 - VII. It’s not who you know; it’s who knows you * 01:01:12 - VIII. Why I even care about any of this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe