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
