Karl Fitzgerald
Karl Fitzgerald is a cyclist and renegade economist, who devotes time as director of advocacy to Prosper Australia, a research institute with the goal of transferring taxes off the productive sector and onto monopoly interests. Karl creates an annual Speculative Vacancies Report that uses abnormally low water consumption as a proxy for vacancy. Karl recently established the Global Empty Homes Network along with US NGO Local Initiatives Support Cooperation and UK campaigners Action on Empty Homes. His monthly radio program and podcast, Renegade Economists, has been offering listeners heterodox economic perspectives for over twelve years