"The towns of Fairhope, AL and Arden, DE were later founded as model Georgist communities or 'single tax colonies'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax_in_the_United_States
@codinghorrorJeff Atwood heh I discovered Georgism from Usenet 25 years ago now.
Henry George got his idea while living in SF and seeing the previously open land of the east bay shoot up in value . . . that was his 'ah hah' moment, and once you see it, you can't unsee it it.
Mason Gaffney's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corruption_of_Economics is good, but the core document I go to is this:
https://www.prosper.org.au/2007/11/letter-to-gorbachev/
Norway avoided "Dutch Disease" brilliantly, Russia, not so much...
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