Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

B. Extractive Resources, and Leasing Policy

B-1. Extractive Resources and Taxation (ed.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Volume One, Publications of TRED, The Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development. Out of print; available micro. Includes 79 pages of "Editorial Findings" (item B, 2, hic), plus Introduction to the volume and to each chapter, with summaries. Reviewed by Peter Pearse, CJE, 2-69; Peter Steiner JEL 6-69; F.P. Hall NRJ 1-69.

B-2. "Editorial Findings," Conclusion to B-1, supra, pp. 340- 419.

B-3. Oil and Gas Leasing Policy: Alternatives for Alaska in 1977. A Report to The State of Alaska, Jay S. Hammond, Governor; Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Guy Martin, Commissioner; and Alaska State Legislature, Interim Committee on Oil and Gas Taxation and Leasing Policy. Juneau: The Committee, 1977. Pp. i-ix, 1-132, plus Technical Appendices A-K, 8 of them by myself. Others by Michael Crommelin, Richard Norgaard, and Robert Rooney.

B-4. "Objectives of Government Policy in Leasing Mineral Lands." In Andrew Thompson and Michael Crommelin (eds.), Mineral Leasing as an Instrument of Public Policy. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1977. Pp. 3-26.

B-5. "Soil Depletion and Land Rent." NRJ 4(3):537-57 (January 1965).

B-6. "Intergovernmental Competition for Energy Revenues." NTA Proceedings, 70th Annual Conference, Louisville, 1978.

B-7. Review of David Brooks (ed.), Resource Economics: Selected Works of Orris C. Herfindahl. NRJ, October 1979, pp. 1006-10.

B-8. "Leasing Policy for Oil and Gas, and the Beaufort Sea Lease Sales." Written solicited Testimony, State of Alaska, House of Representatives, Joint Hearings of Committees on Resources and Finance, March 31, 1979.

B-9. "Marine Resources of Oil and Gas." In Gardner Brown and James Crutchfield (eds.) Economics of Ocean Resources. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982, pp. 121-28.

B-10. "Leasing Policy for Public Lands Bearing Oil and Gas." Seminar, University of Iowa School of Planning, 3 December 1980

B-11. "Analysis of SSHB 200" (a tax bill providing for a backstop tax on oil reserves in Alaska). Report to Joint Gas Pipeline Committee, Alaska State Legislature, June 1981. Pp.1-15

B-12. "Effects of Severance Taxation on Industrial Efficiency and State Revenues." Invited Testimony, California State Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation, Hearings on Oil Severance Taxation and AB 1597, 15 October 1981. Pp. 1-13.

B-13. "Oil and Gas: the Unfinished Tax Reform." Paper delivered at 20th Annual Conference of TRED, The Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development, Cambridge, 1982. Pp. 1-54.

B-14. "Pseudo-Socialism: Oil and Gas Leasing of Federal Lands on the Outer Continental Shelf." Paper delivered at Annual Conference, Western Tax Association, Long Beach, 1983.

B-15. "Tax Exporting and the Commerce Clause." In Charles McLure and Peter Mieszkowski (eds.), Fiscal Federalism and the Taxation of Natural Resources. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1983, pp. 199-203.

B-16. "Revenue Potential of Taxes on Coal." An address delivered at Conference, "Prospects for Appalachia," Charleston, WV, December 1990. Dialogue of ensuing conference published in Walter Rybeck (ed.), From Poverty to Prosperity by 2000, 1990. Kensington, MD: Center for Public Dialogue, pp. 6-60, passim.

B-17. "Leasing Public Lands for Oil and Gas Revenues under Capitalism and Socialism." Paper presented at Workshop on Public Revenue in Russia and the United States, (Dimitri Papadimitriou, Chair), The Jerome Levy Institute, October, 1994.



  1. Forest Economics
  2. Extractive Resources, and Leasing Policy
  3. Land Economics, General
  4. Land Economics, Agricultural
  5. Land Economics, Urban
  6. Environmental Economics
  7. Public Finance
  8. Water Economics and Law
  9. Macro-economic Policy and Theory
  10. Replacement Policy and Theory
  11. History of Economic Thought
  12. General Economics
  13. Biography
  14. Teaching materials, used in lieu of texts
  15. Major unpublished papers, unfinished papers in progress

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