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  • Land Is a Big Deal

  • Why Rent Is Too High, Wages Too Low, and What We Can Do about It
  • By: Lars A. Doucet
  • Narrated by: Lars A. Doucet
  • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Land Is a Big Deal

By: Lars A. Doucet
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Land and the policies that govern it hold an incredible but largely forgotten power over our lives. When land is wasted and squandered, we get sky-high rents, oppressed workers, ruined businesses, depleted natural resources, a polluted earth, and an impoverished society. Poor land policy is the chief culprit behind sky-high urban rents, homelessness, and endless suburban sprawl.

Meanwhile, real estate has become the world's number one asset class, comprising an ever-growing share of bank loans worldwide. Land Is a Big Deal draws on the insights of legendary American economist Henry George to explain how things got this way, as well as what we can do to fix it.

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Excellent overview on Georgism and LVT

The author did a great job putting together the material in an easy to digest way. The reading was also excellent.

I know how difficult it can be to find good data for large scale land valuation. I also dream of a day when someone creates an open and accessible system for standardizing it. It seems wasteful that such a universally applicable challenge is handled so differently by jurisdiction.

The author hints at the following often enough, but does not dwell on it nearly enough for my tastes. It's obvious that land value assessment is not a technical challenge of any significance. The challenge is political, and has been for thousands of years.

This book is important for how it describes the social and economic benefits. It's hard to overstate how significant the transition to full land value taxation could be for civilization.

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