ABSTRACT
In the nineteenth century, Henry George had proposed that a land value tax, based on land value increases being primarily societally rather than individually bestowed, was a just tax that could cover all government expenditure, a contention much later supported by the Henry George Theorem, and recently repeated by Foldvary, Harrison, Anderson and Adams. Real property rights are a fundamental component for both land policy and land valuation, and equally fundamental in considering how such challenges are to be met. The chapter highlights the realisation that whatever contributions this work may make to knowledge are necessarily emergent from, or consequences of, authors' own identity construction. The chapter also provides an outline of this book. The book describes authors' time in Swaziland, with the successes, defeats and lessons that triggered my eventual creation of HVN?HBA. It enfolds authors' autoethnographic narrative of authors' time after Swaziland, during which time he developed HVN?HBA itself.
