To be fair, Kevin is totally focussed on the idea that personal ownership of land is the bedrock of personal wealth and freedom and that by far the most important thing is to ensure that everyone who wants to owns some. He's of the Irish land reform persuasion. He totally rejects the idea that there is any such thing as economic rent, and maintains that most of the supporters of Land Value Tax historically have been in a time when landlordism was rife and that now that western democracies in the main have high proportions of home ownership it is no longer relevant.

I'm afraid I can't get him to see how location, location, location matters and excludes people just as much as lack of land for them to possess.

That said, his work is invaluable in setting the context for any sort of land reform, including Georgist.

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