The 2026 Winners

1st The Rent of the Machine: A Georgist Case for the Data Corpus and the Compute Concession Praket Gauri 2nd Not a Systemic Failure: How Administrative Issues Result in the Collapse of Land Value Taxation in Pittsburgh and the Future of Land Value Taxation in Detroit Brendan Huang 3rd The Enclosure of the Digital Commons: A Georgist Analysis of Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Dynamics Kylah Kao 1st The Sky Is Land: Climate Policy as the Recovery of Rent Jonah Rasmussen 2nd AI and the New Rent: What Henry George Would Say About the Intelligence Age Ethan Hammontree 3rd Inequality: Why Does Poverty Persist Amid Progress? Roland Ankamah Addo 1st Agritech and the Georgist Case in the Corn Belt Aiden Chen 2nd Henry George and Monopolies Jonah Cohen 1st Digital Land Damian Krotov 1st The Rent of the Machine: A Georgist Case for the Data Corpus and the Compute Concession Praket Gauri 2nd Not a Systemic Failure: How Administrative Issues Result in the Collapse of Land Value Taxation in Pittsburgh and the Future of Land Value Taxation in Detroit Brendan Huang 3rd The Enclosure of the Digital Commons: A Georgist Analysis of Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Dynamics Kylah Kao 1st The Sky Is Land: Climate Policy as the Recovery of Rent Jonah Rasmussen 2nd AI and the New Rent: What Henry George Would Say About the Intelligence Age Ethan Hammontree 3rd Inequality: Why Does Poverty Persist Amid Progress? Roland Ankamah Addo 1st Agritech and the Georgist Case in the Corn Belt Aiden Chen 2nd Henry George and Monopolies Jonah Cohen 1st Digital Land Damian Krotov