Monopoly

insights

Adam Smith supported land value taxation, writing that the burden would fall upon owners of "ground-rent", who always act as monopolists. A 2020 report by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives found that the Big Four tech firms - Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - engage in systematic anticompetitive practices.

sources

Codetermination and the Democratic State The Wealth of Nations

authors

Horst Eudenmueller Jens Dammann Adam Smith

reports

Codetermination Land Value Tax