Progress and Poverty, Henry George (1879)

The book that started the movement: why wages fall behind while rents climb, and why the answer is a charge on land rather than more tax on work.

Social Problems, Henry George (1883)

Shorter and sharper than his famous first book, and the one that converted a generation of British reformers.

The Absentee Landlord, Thorstein Veblen (1923)

A short, savage essay on the landlord as a man paid for owning rather than doing.

The Income Tax: Root of All Evil, Frank Chodorov (1953)

How an income tax sold as a levy on the rich grew into a levy on everyone who works, and how the land tax it replaced was no accident.

The Corruption of Economics, Mason Gaffney (1994)

How the study of rent was quietly edited out of the university syllabus between 1870 and 1900, and who paid for the edit.

Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby (2010)

The clearest short case in print for funding the state from land values, from a former tax inspector.

After the Crash, Mason Gaffney (2013)

How the rent question was ducked, why the crash was foreseeable, and what a country that taxes land instead of labour would look like.

Who Owns England?, Guy Shrubsole (2019)

The research that settles the argument with maps: less than one per cent of the population still owns half of England.

Land and the Constitution, David Lawson (2019)

The British case made as a constitutional argument: who actually governs the ground we all have to live on, and to whom they answer.

Marginal Gains, Dan Sullivan (2019)

How to move the tax burden off work and onto land without breaking anything, with the standard objections answered one by one.