A Review of the Georgist Tax Remedy for Australia

Rent theory has been associated historically with the suggestion that land rent is a most suitable basis for public funding, giving rise to the single tax movement of Henry George. The political fortunes of the latter have been singularly unfavourable, and have tended to draw attention away from systematic study of rent theory.The recent trend in many texts has been to enumerate a set of shortcomings with rent theory that often owes more to a...