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Sponsored Research

The Progress of Ideas grant program - separate from our Scholarship program - was created to support innovative research related to advancing Georgist ideas.

The Institute invites applications on a wide array of topics related to the works, policy solutions, and political and ethical implications of Henry George, including land value taxation, economic justice, free trade, and contributing to the public good without exacerbating inequality. A non-exhaustive list of potential topics includes:

  • Sprawl and suburbanization
  • Infrastructure spending
  • Climate change, including adaptation/mitigation, impacts, related human migration, related insurance practices, carbon markets, land rights issues related to carbon sequestration
  • Equity in taxation and public finance
  • Public investment and value capture
  • Trends in property assessment practice, including implications of AI, energy efficiency investments
  • Push/pull factors affecting migration and residential location
  • Strategies for addressing territorial conflicts, including how tariffs may be related
  • Progressive Era history and politics, influence of Henry George
  • Housing affordability, including gentrification and displacement, NIMBYism, land trusts
  • Native American and indigenous land rights
  • Tariffs as they relate to progressivity/regressivity
  • Other commons like water, electromagnetic spectrum, orbital rights, severance taxes, resource rents, airport landing slots, congestion pricing, dynamic parking, railway right-of-way
  • Political economy, opinion polling, message testing, etc. of Georgist policies
  • Other related topics

Our 2025 grant cycle has closed. Please join our e-mail list for up-to-date info on PPI and be one of the first to know about our next round of scholarship opportunities!  Click here to sign up.

Current Progress of Ideas Grantees

Learn more about our latest group of scholars who will be engaged in innovative research across a variety of different fields and disciplines related to our mission to advance Georgist ideas and thought relevant to contemporary issues and social concerns.

Zhou Yang

Robert Morris University

“Land Value Taxation and Urban Sprawl: What Can We Learn from the Pennsylvania Experience?”

Zhou Yang
Nestor Garza

Nestor Garza

California State University

“The Implicit Spatial and Dynamic Land Value Subsidy accrued to Proposition 13 in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area”

Mi Shih & Kathe Newman

Rutgers University

“Public Benefits and Private Profits: Negotiating Public Private Land Development and Equity in New Taipei City and New York City”

Mi Shih & Kathe Newman

Information about the 2025 Progress of Ideas Grant is now available.
Application cycle open through April 11, 2025.

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Past Progress of Ideas Grantees

Ground Rules: Land Use Incentives for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities

Jonathan Lamb
Ph.D Candidate and Assistant Policy Analyst

Corprate Ownership of Small Residential Properties

Eric Seymour
Ph.D Candidate and Assistant Policy Analyst

Reconciling urban growth with water scarcity: Limits to adaptation or opportunity for policy innovation?

Hallie Eakin
School of Sustainability Arizona State

Property Taxes and Spatial Mobility: Evidence from Local Governments in the U.S.

Francesco Ruggieri
Ph.D Candidate

The California Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program: Evaluating the Use of Cap-and-Trade Funds to Promote Climate Mitigation and Adaptation.

Thomas Daniels
Crossways Professor Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania

Does Informality Deter Tax Progressivity? Evidence from the 'Ghost Buildings' Program

Enrico Rubolino, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Law, Surplus, Market Regulation, and Inequality

Michael Guttentag, Ph.D
Professor of Law John T. Gurash Fellow in Corp. Law & Business Loyloa Law School

Speculative Real Estate Investment in Housing following COVID-19 and the influence of State and Local Tax Policy

Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond
Director, Ph.D. Program; Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning Georgia Institute of Technology

The Impact of Tax-Exempt Property on Municipalities in Pennsylvania

Vinny Cannizzaro, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania Economy League

Annotated Works
of
Henry George

This series, which is six volumes in length, is published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing and was sponsored by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.

  • Volume 1: Our Land and Land Policy and Other Works
  • Volume 2: Progress and Poverty
  • Volume 3: Social Problems and Condition of Labor
  • Volume 4: Protection or Free Trade
  • Volume 5: The Science of Political Economy
  • Volume 6: A Perplexed Philosopher


The Henry George Foundation of Great Britain also provides support for the publication of this series.