Land Value Taxation in Germany: Theoretical and Historical Issues    pdf 66kb
Essay prepared for a Compendium on Land Value Taxation Around the World to be published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Henry George.
Prof. Dr. Jurgen G. Backhaus

Making negotiated land reform work    pdf 109kb
Making negotiated land reform work: Initial experience from Colombia, Brazil, and South Africa.
Klaus Deininger

Estimating the value of land    pdf 218kb
Estimating the value of land from Prussian wealth tax data.
Scott M. Eddie

Municipal Corporations, Homeowners, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax    pdf 124kb
Written for the conference on “Property Taxation and Local Government Finance,” Paradise Valley, Arizona, January 16-18, 2000, which was sponsored by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. This will appear in a conference volume edited by Wallace Oates and published by the Lincoln Institute sometime in 2000 or 2001.
William A. Fischel

Zoning and land use regulation    pdf 123kb
Zoning confers an interest in the property of each landowner to those who control the political power of the locality. This allows municipalities to shape their residential environments and their property-tax base. Voters in most communities will accept developments that raise the value of their major personal asset, their homes. The efficiency of zoning thus depends on the transaction costs of making mutually advantageous trades between existing voters and development-minded landowners. High transactions costs of selling zoning plus the endowment effect that zoning confers probably create land-use patterns with excessively low densities in American metropolitan areas.
William A. Fischel

The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836    pdf 152kb
The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836: measuring the efficiency gains of agricultural land tax reforms in England 1842-1855.
Eric Jamelske

Effects of Urban Containment on Housing Prices and Landowner Behavior    pdf 1058kb
Land Lines News letter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Arthur C. Nelson

A Treatise on Political Economy    pdf 1382kb
A Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth.
Jean-Baptiste Say

Can Time and Markets Eliminate Costly Land Ownership Inequality?    pdf 218kb
In no region of the world has land ownership inequality been starker and more persistent than in Latin America. The Barraclough studies of the 1960s (summarized in Barraclough 1967), exhaustively documented this persistent status quo. What Coles (1994) calls the “land reform period” of Latin American agricultural policy was intended as (or, more cynically, intended to appear as) a frontal assault on what was perceived as an economically, socially and politically costly inequality.
Michael R. Carter and Frederic Zimmerman