Astral Codex Ten

Nicolaus Tideman

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Nicolaus Tideman

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Nicolaus Tideman is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 09, 2021 and December 11, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “an estimate of $31 trillion that Nicolaus Tideman sent him via private correspondence”; “I contacted Nicolaus Tideman, who tells me”; “check out the paper Nicolaus Tideman sent me”. It most often appears alongside Albouy, Alexandra Elbakyan, Astral Codex Ten.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 09, 2021
  • Last seen: December 11, 2021

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Does Georgism Work? Part 1: Is Land Really A Big Deal?
December 09, 2021 · Original source
The data points for Foldvary, Smith, Tideman, Gaffney and Cord all come from Counting Bounty. Smith gives his own estimate of $44 trillion and notes an estimate of $31 trillion that Nicolaus Tideman sent him via private correspondence.
Nevertheless, there's strong evidence that public spending on non-"pure public goods" raises land values too, just perhaps not to the same degree. I contacted Nicolaus Tideman, who tells me that a variant of the HG Theorem for non-pure-public-goods holds that "the combination of land value increases and charges equal to marginal cost will finance these expenditures." However, "neither theorem applies if people have different tastes or if benefits do not decline with distance." I think what he's saying is that most public works can be funded entirely by the increases in land value they generate, supplemented with modest user fees. I also think he's saying it depends on what kind of public work it is. If you spend public money on a truly hideous art installation that o
Inline links: raises land values too
If you want to see someone much smarter than I put all this together into an actual policy paper that proposes a modest land value tax to boost the economy, abolish the income tax, and balance the budget, check out the paper Nicolaus Tideman sent me: Post-Corona Balanced-Budget Super-Stimulus: The Case for Shifting Taxes Onto Land (co-written with Kumhof, Hudson, and Goodhart).
Inline links: Post-Corona Balanced-Budget Super-Stimulus: The Case for Shifting Taxes Onto Land
Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value be Accurately Assessed Separately From Buildings?
December 11, 2021 · Original source
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