The 2026 Winners

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1st place

Praket Gauri

The Rent of the Machine: A Georgist Case for the Data Corpus and the Compute Concession

2nd place

Brendan Huang

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

3rd place

Kylah Kao

The Enclosure of the Digital Commons: A Georgist Analysis of Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Dynamics

1st place

Jonah Rasmussen

The Sky Is Land: Climate Policy as the Recovery of Rent

2nd place

Ethan Hammontree

AI and the New Rent: What Henry George Would Say About the Intelligence Age

3rd place

Roland Ankamah Addo

Inequality: Why Does Poverty Persist Amid Progress?

1st place

Aiden Chen

Agritech and the Georgist Case in the Corn Belt

2nd place

Jonah Cohen

Henry George and Monopolies

1st place

Damian Krotov

Digital Land

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

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