Tax the dirt, with Lars Doucet & Greg Miller
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Lars Doucet and Greg Miller, co-founders who have just launched the Center for Land Economics, to discuss improving property taxation in the US. They explore how shifting taxes from buildings to land could transform development patterns, why California's pro…
172. Symposia - 2025 Annual Conference: Practical Applications of AI
Today’s discussion comes from our 2025 Annual Conference, The Rise of AI and Automation. This week and next, we’ll feature a series of panel discussions from our conference. Today’s episode is part of our second panel, “Practical Applications of AI – Land Assessment Test Project”, and will be foll…
Lizardry, Technology, and What to Call Roguelikes, with Geoff Blair and Matt Hackett
At first glance, A Wizard's Lizard doesn't seem like a roguelike-alike, but more specifically like a Binding of Isaac-alike, what with its distinctive combination of Zelda and Smash TV. But on closer inspection, A Wizard's Lizard is a fairly different beast, owing more to A Link to the Past than t…
Lars Doucet on How to Reduce the Cost of Rent
Lars Doucet is the President of the Center for Land Economics and the writer behind the Substack "Progress and Poverty." Lars is a Georgist, which means he believes that land is fundamentally different from other forms of property. From his point of view, we shouldn't be taxing what people build, …
Ep 111: Land Value Tax Would Fix This with Lars Doucet (Incentives Series pt. 11)
We close out the Incentives Series with Lars Doucet offering a primer on land value taxes, the ultimate incentive-aligned housing policy. This is part 11 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
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What's the Housing Crisis Beneath the Housing Crisis?
Lars Doucet digs into a problem that shows up in expensive cities, sprawling suburbs, and even countries Americans often point to as models: land. Monopoly, he argues, became frustrating by design because it captured something real about how land markets work. The episode connects that lesson to h…
190. Vacant Land in Baltimore: The High Cost of Undervaluation
For today’s episode, Greg Miller and Lars Doucet from the Center for Land Economics discuss vacant land being undervalued in Baltimore compared to utilized lots and what the mismatches mean for speculation, development, and fairness.
Greg Miller is Co-Founder of the Center for Land Economics. He …
Can a land value tax fix housing? | Lars Doucet
Prime downtown land sits empty while cities run out of housing. Tax buildings and you punish building; tax land and you punish sitting on it. In this episode, Lars Doucet, author of Land is a Big Deal, discusses the history and relevance of land value taxes to prevent land speculation and address …
When Fixing Property Taxes Just Adds Another Tax
A New York condo sold for $238 million, but the city assessed it at just $15.5 million. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has framed his new pied-à-terre tax as a way to “tax the rich,” but a recent article by Ken Girardin, “The Sheer Absurdity of New York’s Pied-à-Terre Tax,” argues that the bigger problem si…
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