The Alliance for Liberty and Equal Rights to the Earth is a network of academics and activists dedicated to the study and promotion of geoism. Our approach is to present the idea of geoism in a very simple way, as the philosophy of Liberty and Equal Rights to the Earth, or even more succinctly, Land and Liberty.
Nicolaus Tideman
Co-founder
Nicolaus Tideman earned his PhD in economics at the University of Chicago, had various positions at universities and was a Senior Staff Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors. Since 1973 he has been at Virginia Tech. He has published about economics and public decision-making and is the author of The needed moral revolution, published in the 2016 book Rent Unmasked. Nicolaus Tideman lives in Blacksburg Virginia.
Martin Jacobson
Co-founder
In 2014 Martin Jacobson finished his PhD thesis Land and Liberty at Uppsala Univerity in Sweden. He published about the philosophy of geoism, anarchism and effective altruism. He is a visiting fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and he will spend 2025-2026 as a guest researcher at Virginia Tech University.
Michiel Buddingh
Co-founder
Michiel Buddingh works as a software developer, and has always been critical of the way our society treats rents as a fact of life. He feels that geoism would open up new perspectives in people’s minds, if it were more widely known.
Barend Gehner
Co-founder
Barend Gehner is a lecturer in crop production in the Netherlands. In addition to sustainable agriculture, he is interested in liberty, geoism and old sailing ships. He and his family lived on a historic sailing ship for a number of years and he thinks it’s important that people can live in the way they prefer, whether in a house, a van or a boat. He is the author of the 2024 book On Liberty and Earth Ownership. The Dutch version is Over vrijheid en hoe we de aarde bezitten.
