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Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it

Saurabh Modi
Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it
Author: Lars A Doucet 
Publisher: Shack Simple Press
Pages: 306
Price: $29.95

Who do I work for? My employer or landlord? Someone, sometime, living in a city like Mumbai, must have wondered. The price-to-income ratio of a house in Mumbai is three times more than in New York. Or, rents are sky high, and relative to it, income is low. According to Henry George, the 19th-century political economist, sky-high rents are a symptom of a malady in which land is wasted. And its effect is
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