Ed Dodson, Author at Common Ground U.S.A.

The State of the U.S. Economy and Society – 2026

Mar 16, 2026 | Groundswell, Video

A presentation on The State of the U.S. Economy and Society made March 16, 2026 at the Cherry Hill Library, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The material I pulled together for this talk turned out to be more involved than the time allotted for this talk tomorrow evening....

Smart Talk: Land, Housing, and the Economy

Feb 11, 2026 | Groundswell

In this edition of Smart Talk (a Henry George School program), Ed Dodson speaks with Dr. John Muellbauer, Professor of Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and senior fellow at the London-based Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), about the...

Fixing retail with land value capture

Jan 30, 2026 | Groundswell

How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere. A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail – shops, cafes, restaurants and so on – to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise of...

The Land Tax Gambit: Could a Levy on Dirt Revitalize America’s Empty Storefronts?

Jan 30, 2026 | Groundswell

As retail vacancies plague American cities, economists and urban planners are reviving a radical idea: the land value tax. This policy shifts the tax burden from buildings to the land itself, creating powerful incentives to develop or lease empty storefronts,...

How a state bill proposed by state Sen. Rachel May could reshape property taxes in Syracuse — and spur development

Jan 30, 2026 | Groundswell

Mayor Sharon Owens has expressed early interest in the bill, which could allow Syracuse to opt into a pilot program to change how property is taxed. Mayor Sharon Owens believes a bill proposed in the state legislature that would alter how property is taxed could also...