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It is hard to know where to start on when encountering a new body of information; a search engine may not help much if you don't know what to search on! The theme pages are intended to structure things a bit to help in the "start up" period.

It doesn't matter where you start. Pick a topic that is of interest to you. When you get to that "theme" page, you'll find a list of related themes and themes which relate to the articles excerpted on that page; if one of those piques your interest, go there next!

Themes marked with an asterisk are "underpopulated" themes: many of the themes were set up early in the development of the website. But as the process of development continued, new ones presented themselves, and pages were added for them. They may not have all the relevant references that are available on this website; use the links in the right sidebars, and/or google, to find others. Note also that the links at the top of the underpopulated themes pages may not work properly! (Pull out the duplicate folder name!)

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A, B and C* Abatements Ability to pay* About Henry George Absentee ownership Accounting Systems Ad valorem taxes* Adam Smith Adequacy of Property Tax on a Local Basis for Financing Education and other Services Administrability (of taxes) * Advertising* Advice for Other Countries Agriculture Agriculture as the example of something universal	Air Air trusts* Air, Water, Land Airlord Airports Alabama and other low-tax states Alaska and the Alaska Permanent Fund Algorithms* Aligning public and private interests* All benefits accrue to the landowner America America as a beacon in the world America's promise* American Permanent Fund* Annual Value *	Anticipating Population Growth Appropriation Arden, Delaware* Arrogating *Assessment* Assessment districts Asset poverty Association in equality * ATCOR (all taxes come out of rent) Attracting Capital Auctions Australia Automobile Ayn Rand
	B
Balance in taxation?* Balancing collective rights and individual rights* Barriers to entry Basic income Beneficence of the creator Benefits received * Biblical ethics Big land holders Biggest beneficiaries of land value taxation* Binding other generations	Biodiversity* Birthright Blackleg * Blackstone Blaming the victim* Blasphemy Blunt Policy Instruments Boom-Bust Cycles Boston * Both ethical and fiscal * Bricks Brotherhood, fraternity* Brownfields*	Bubble Buffalo commons* Building Residual Method Burden on the economy* Burdening the Poor Burdenless taxation * Edmund Burke* Business Depression But I'm not a land monopolist, am I? By any other name
	C
Cain and Abel Caesarism * *California* Campaign Finance Edwin Cannan* *Canons of Taxation* Cap and trade* *Capital* *Capital and Labor* Capital Formation *Capital Gains — or Land Gains?* Capital Markets Capitalism and community* Capitalism and democracy* *Capitalism — Refining* Capitalist* *Capitalization* Captain Kidd Carbon dioxide* Carbon taxes* Carlyle Carrying capacity* CEO Pay CGO — The Council of Georgist Organizations* Change the System Charity Cheap land * Checkerboard Development* Chicago * Chicago School Child labor *	Children* Children's opportunity trust* Chodorov Christian ethics Christianity reinforcing privilege Citizen Dividends Civil strife * Civilization Class war Classical liberals Classical vs Neo-Classical Economists Coase Cobden Collectors' Items Command and Control Commerce * Common Good Common Property Common property trusts * Commons Commons algorithm * Commons sector * Commons tax credits * Communications Community Community collection of rents * Community gardens* Communities leaking revenue Commuting	Compensation Competition Concentration of Wealth Confiscation Congestion Conservatism Constitution Construction Costs Consumption Consumption tax wrong * Contractarianism Cooperation * Corporate art * Corporations and government * Corporations and society * Corporations' ascent * Corporations as land owners Corporation Privileges Corruption Cost of Living Counter-arguments against taxing land Created Equal Crime Culture *
	D
Deadweight Loss Debt Declaration of Independence Defense Deficit and public debt Is democracy enough? Density Depleting resources * Depreciation	Des Moines Desperado Developer Digital TV * Direct taxes * Disabled Distortionary taxes * Distortions	Distribution * Distribution of wealth * Division of labor * Do Justice Do Justice, give freedom * Dogs in the Manger double taxation * Duke of Argyll * Duke of Westminster *
	E
Each Child's Rights Earth is the Lord's Ecological Economics Economic Growth Economic Justice Economic rent and building rent * Economic operating system * Economics Textbooks Economists * Ecosystem Services Education Effect of taxing land value	Effects of not collecting site rent Efficiency of land value taxation Egalitarianism Eminent Domain Enclosure Energy Enough to go around * Enough and as good * Entrepreneur Environment Equal liberty * Equal Opportunity	Equal rights * Equality Equity for the landless Equity in taxation Ethical Excess Burden Expediency Externality Extremes of wealth and poverty
	F
Factors Fairness Family History Famine Farmers and Land Value Taxation Fear of poverty * Federal Taxes Feedback loops * Fences and bandages Feudalism * Fiduciary * Financing Education Financing fire protection * Financing Infrastructure	FIRE (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate ) sector First (as in “I was there first!”) First principles Fiscal Federalism Fiscal Stimulus Flipping Flow Foreign Aid Foresight Founding Fathers and First Families Franchises * Free gift of nature *	Free Land * Free Lunches Free Market Free Market Capitalism Free market environmentalism * Freedom Freedom to employ oneself * Free trade * Friedman Frontier Fruits Full Employment Future generations *
	G
John Kenneth Galbraith * Generations Geographic Information Systems (GIS) * Geonomic Life Geonomy Georgist Errors Gini and Lorenz Giveaway or auction? sale or lease? * Givings global atmosphere trust *	global carbon trust * global commons initiatives * Global Conflict Globalization * God's bounty * God's Eldest Sons God's Wisdom Going Ahead Golden Rule	Golf Gospel of Justice Government's Role Grandchildren Great Minds Green Taxes Ground rent * Groundwater trusts * Growing the Pie GUT: Grand Unifying Theory
	H
Hand to mouth * Happiness * Hard times * Harrisburg * He who produces Health care * Heaven Henry George Theorem Highest and Best Use	History of Economics History of taxation Hoarding Land Hole in the Ground Home Equity Homeownership Hong Kong	Hotel Taxes House rent and wages * Housing Affordability Homer Hoyt Human Desires Human Nature Hunger Hunter-gatherer society *
	I
Illusion of Freedom illth * Immigration Importance of Land Importance of Marketplace * Improvements in Land In one's sleep Incentive taxation Incentives What's wrong with an income tax? * Income Tax Box Income taxes * Indigenous Peoples	Indirect Taxation Individual nature of man * Industrial Capacity Industrial Depression Industrial Slavery Inequality Inelastic supply * Infill Inflation Infrastructure Injustice Injustice of Current Taxes Innocent purchaser *	Intellectual Property Intelligent design Interconnectedness Interest Interest and Wages Intergenerational Equity Internet as commons * Investment Iraq Ireland Is this communism? * Is this socialism?
	J
Jeffersonian ideals Job creation Jobs chasing people Johannesburg	Jubilee Judeo-Christian Tradition Just passing through * Justice Justice among nations	Justice changing Justice ongoing Justifications for land value taxation
	K
Kingdom of God *
	L
Labor Labor-saving devices * Laborers as poor * Laissez faire Land poor Land Land a gift of nature* Land acquiring value * Land and labor * Land and public finance Land appreciates, buildings depreciate Land as God's provisioning for all Land as common property Land concentration Land defined Land is different from capital Land different from labor Land dues Land "earning" more than work Land grabbers * Land excludes Land history Land is power * Land includes Land monopoly Land monopoly capitalism Land nationalization * Land price cycle	Land prices Land prices and taxes * Land problem Land progression Land redistribution land reform * Land residual method LSREV (land share of real estate value) Land that shouldn't be built on Land trusts * Land value Land value and women's employment Land value taxation Land value taxation and rent Land value taxation is not a tax on land Land value mapping Land value taxation as primary revenue source Land value scale Landed Gentry * Landholders * Landless Landlord Landlordism * Land's Productiveness * Latifundiazation Law of Development Law of Human Progress * Law of Rent Law of Wages Laws of Economics * Leakage: communities leaking revenue Leased Land * Leisure *	Leveling the playing field * Levels of government * Liberalism Liberation theology Libertarian Liberty Liberty, Equality and Fraternity Licenses Abraham Lincoln * (John) Lincoln Foundation Lobbyists Local art * Local commons initiatives * Local government Location, location, location Lock-in effect Locke Lord's Prayer Low rent places * Lowering the price of land LSREV (land share of real estate value) LV and women's employment LVT - land value taxation LVT as primary revenue source LVT as social reform * LVT as fiscal measure * LVT and rent LVT is not a tax on land
	M
Made land * Magnitude of rent * Majoritarian Malthus * Man dependent on land * Man different from animals * Man intellectual and spiritual * Manna Margin of production Marginal land Market fundamentalism * Measurement, Statistics and Decision-making	Media Meritocracy Michigan Middle men * John Stuart Mill Millstones * Mines and minerals * Minimum wage * Missionary Misunderstandings * Mixing one's labor with land Mobility Monarchy Monetary	Monopoly and oligopoly Monopoly (the game) * Moral insights More men, more yield * Mortgages Moses and Mosaic law Mother's milk * My beautiful mind
	N
National commons initiatives * Native Americans and land Natural capital Natural law Natural monopolies Natural opportunities Natural resources	Natural taxation * Necessity of taking rent Neighbors' actions Neo-classical economics Neutrality New country New Orleans * New Zealand	NIMBY No right to employment * No victims Albert Nock Not a tax * Not passed on New York City
	O
Oasis Obesity Obsolescence Oceans Oil Oil revenue * Old land and new assets On earth as it is in heaven	One underlying problem Oneself Open space Options markets in land Other countries Our daily bread Our Father*	Overallocating Overcrowding The Myth of Overpopulation Overproduction Owner-occupied Ownership
	P
Thomas Paine * Panacea? Parables, analogies and teaching stories Paradigm shift Parents' duty * Pareto criterion Parking Parks Patchwork remedies Patents Patient money Pay for what you take Paying more than goods are worth * Paying the wrong party * Paying twice Payroll taxes Peace Pennsylvania Pension Perverse incentives Philanthropy and charity Physiocrats Arthur Pigou Gifford Pinchot Piracy Political economy Politicians Pollutees * Polluter pays Pollution trading * Pollution Pollution rights * Ponzi scheme Is Population a Problem? Population density Density	Population growth Populism Pork Possession Postage stamp pricing Poverty's causes Poverty Poverty abolishing Poverty amid wealth Poverty and God Poverty and justice Poverty unnatural * Prayer and works Predistribution * Pre-emptive capital Pre-George Premature land development Present value * Preservation Price of nature * Prices Prices raised by taxes * Joseph Priestley Primacy Primogeniture * Privacy Private property Private property in land * Private property in men * Private property in things manmade * Private sector redevelopment Privatization Privilege, privileges: private law Production * Productive activity * Productivity Productivity and land value * Profitability of land *	Profits * Progress Progressivity Prolonged adolescence Promised land Proposition 13 Propertizing * Property rights Property tax Property tax caps Property tax is two taxes Property tax relief Property values and subsidies Property values and transportation Prosperity Protecting the poor Protection of the state (nation of laws) Protectionists Proudhon Public debt * Public expenditure Public goods Public lands and resources Public services Public spaces * Public transportation * Public trough Public trust * Public utilities * Publicly funded research * Purpose of living
	Q
Quaint agrarian idea?	Quotable Nobels	Quotable notables
	R
Rack-rented Radical Railroads John Rawls * Real estate Real estate fortunes Reason * Recycling Recycling old factories Recycling revenue Red and blue Redevelopment Redistribution Refining Capitalism Regional commons initiatives * Regressive and progressive Rent-seeking	Rent Rent - agricultural Rent and wages Rent as God's provisioning for community Rent as private property * Rent as capitalized transportation cost * Rent control Rent defined Rent is for the entire community * Rent tends to rise * Rent to the landlord is mispaid * Rentention Rentiers Reparations Revenue not primary Revenue sharing	Rewards of industry * Ricardo Rich and poor * Rich get rich Right and wrong * Right to employment * Right to life Rights Ripening Rising tide * Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe Roosevelt, Theodore Rothbard Royalties Ruling class Rural Russia *
	S
Savings & Loan crisis Sales taxes What's wrong with a sales tax? * Saving Scarcity Secession Seeing the Cat Self-actualization Self employment * Seniors Services and goods * Service businesses Severance tax Sharecropping Sharing an inheritance * Sharing rent Shaw Thomas Shearman * Shifting taxes Shining city Shrinking government Sim commons * Sin taxes Single tax Single parents	Site recycling Slavery and its aftermath Slavery parallels Slums Slums and gentrification Small business Small government Small landholders * Small towns Social classes Social growth * Social justice Social organism * Social Problems Social progress Social Security * Social surplus Social welfare programs Something for nothing * Sources of rent Sovereign * Soviet Union Special interests Spectrum Spectrum trust *	Speculation Speculative rent * Speculators Herbert Spencer * Split-rate taxation Sprawl Stability of revenue Stakeholder society Starve government Steerage * Stewardship Joseph Stiglitz * Stock and flow * Streets and parking Subsidies Subtle alchemy Sufficiency Sun Yat-Sen * Superheroes Supply-side economics Supply and demand Supporting a family Surplus Surplus capitalism* Sustainability
	T
Taiwan Take what you need and leave the rest Takings and givings Talent Tariffs Tax-exempt land Tax administrability Tax bads, not goods * Tax burden Tax certainty * Tax deferral * Tax efficiency * Tax evasion Tax incidence Tax justice Tax reform Tax simplification Taxes' effects Taxes and moral law * Taxes and prices * Taxes on imports * Taxes, supply and demand * Taxi medallions Taxing buildings Taxing capital Taxing productive activity * Taxing wages	Teardowns Technological progress Temptation * Ten Commandments Tenant Tenants' improvements The greater Leviathan * The 100% location Seeing the Cat The great paradox The labor of others * The labor question * The land question The least of these The remedy Theft Theological Think big Third way Third world countries Thneeds * Thou shalt not steal Three-factor economics Three hats * Three parcels of land Three sources Thy Kingdom Come * Tic-tac-toe Tiebout	Timber Time doesn't transform wrong to right * Tithe Title To whom much is given Tobin Tollgates and tollpayers * Top percentiles Trade Trade unions Tragedy of the (unmanaged) commons Tramps Transition Transportation Transportation costs * Trespassing on common ground * Trickle-down economics * Trustee * Truth Turnover of land Two-factor economics Two-rate property tax Two neighboring lots Tyranny *
	U
U'Ren Under the protection * Underground economy Underused land Unearned increment Unemployment Untaxing	Untaxing buildings and other capital Untaxing labor Unto whom much is given * Urban issues Urban Land Share of Real Estate Value (Urban LSREV) Urban land values relative to rural	Urban planning User fees Usufruct Usury * Utilitarian Utilities Utopia
	V
Value * Bill Vickrey	Ludwig Von Mises	Voter apathy
	W
Wage disparities Wage slaves Wages Wages tending to a minimum * War Warping of economics Warping of Christianity Waste Water Water trusts * Watershed trusts *	Wealth Wealth and labor * Wealth concentration Wealth from land appreciation Wealth from privatizing rent * Wealth gap Wedge Well-being Well-provisioned ship What percentage? * What rate? * Whole hog or lite? * Why tax rent?	Widow's skirts WiFi * Wilderness Windfall Winner's curse Women Work Working for change Working man, beggar, or thief * Working poor
	X-Y-Z
	Young people	Zoning changes

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