Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

C. Land Economics, General

C-1. "Ground Rent and the Allocation of Land among Firms." In Frank Miller (ed.) Rent Theory, Problems and Practices. North Central Regional Research Bulletin 139 (University of Missouri Research Bulletin 810). Pp. 30-49; 74-82.

C-2. "Land and Rent in Welfare Economics." In Marion Clawson, Marshall Harriss and Joseph Ackerman (eds.) Land Economics Research. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962. Pp. 141-67.

C-3. "Social and Economic Impacts of Foreign Investment in U.S. Land." NRJ Volume 17, July 1978. Pp. 377-93.

C-4. "The Unwieldy Time-dimension of Space." AJES 20(5):465-81. October 1961.

C-5. "Land Rent, Taxation and Public Policy." Papers of the Regional Science Association Volume 23, 1970. Pp. 141-53.

C-6. "Counter-colonial Land Policy for Montana." Western Wildlands 3(3): Winter 1977. Pp. 16-25.

C-7. "Dissipating Land Rent." A paper presented at annual Meetings, Western Economics Association, San Diego, July 2, 1990.

C-8. "Land Reform through Tax Reform," 1993. In Riel Franzsen and Christof Heyns (eds.), A Land Tax for the New South Africa? Pretoria: The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Universiteit van Pretoria, pp. 111-26. [Originally an invited paper, "Land Reform through Fiscal Policy," at conference, A LAND TAX FOR THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA, 20 March 1992, presented by The Centre for Human Rights Studies, Faculty of Law, Universiteit van Pretoria.]

C-9. "Land as a Distinctive Factor of Production," 1994. In Nicolaus Tideman (ed.), Land and Taxation. London: Shepheard- Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., pp. 39-102 (constituting about 1/3 of the book).

C-10. The New Scarcities: Water, Energy and Open Space. Southern California Research Council Project #25. Pomona, 1979. My contribution to this was the keynote paper delivered at the kickoff banquet, Los Angeles, 1978.

C-11. The TRED Series of books on land economics and taxation, University of Wisconsin Press, 1967-80. TRED is The Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development, of which I am the surviving founder. The Committee selects an Editor and a topic each year, and helps the Editor plan the conference. My heaviest contribution (outside of B-1, and my own chapters) was to Arthur Becker (ed.), Land and Building Taxes.

C-12. "Comment on Papers and Proposals." In most volumes of the TRED series of the University of Wisconsin Press, 1967-80, there are many pages of edited transcripts of recorded scholarly dialogue which I often led. Comments are attributed by name.

C-13. "The Philippines: Land Reform through Tax Reform." Paper delivered to Conference on Land Reform and Development in the Philippines, World Affairs Council, San Francisco, 20 Oct 87, pp.1-9.

C-14. "Observed vs. A Priori Behavior in Land Markets." Proceedings, 4th Annual Conference on Behavioral Economics, San Diego, June, 1988.

C-15. "Land Speculation as an Obstacle to Ideal Allocation of Land," 1956. Ph.D. dissertation, U.C. Berkeley, pp. 1-514. Available University Microfilms. (I have drawn on this for a few publications, and recently did so again for "Rising Concentration and Falling Property Tax Rates," q.v.)

C-16. "Dennis Meadows as Banquo's Ghost." Paper delivered at AEA annual meetings, Toronto, December 1972, Session on Resource Scarcity, Anthony Scott, Chair.

C-17. "Land as a Distinctive Factor of Production," pp. 1-23. Pilot paper, 1987 Annual Conference of TRED, which Daniel Holland and I co-chaired, on "Efficiency of the Land Market." Later radically revised and published (see C-10).

C-18. "Thorstein Veblen on Absentee Ownership and Scattered Settlement." Seminar, University of Iowa, Graduate School of Planning, 2 December 1980.

C-19. "Land Reform in Catholic Economic Policy." Address to Franciscan Friars, Mission Sta. Barbara, January 1985. Follow-up letter in response to questions, pp. 1-9.

C-20. "Justice in Land Distribution." Testimony, Papal Commission on Pax et Iustitia, The Vatican, April 1985.

C-21. With Tamara Chistyakova (eds.), 1995. Rossiskaya Zemelnaya Reforma: Zemlya y Sovstrennost (Russian Land Reform: Land and Property). St. Petersburg: Ekograd.

C-22. "Privatizatsiya Zemli" (Privatizing Land). Pp. 4-27 of the above book. (See G-16, below.)

C-23. With Dmitri L'vov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Strategicheskii kurs Vozrozhdeniya Rossii (Strategic course for the Rebirth of Russia). Otkritoye obrashtcheniye rossiiskikhi zarubyezhnekh spetsiyalistov kah prezidyentu pravityelstrui Fedyeralnomy sobvaniio Rossii (Open Statement of Russian and Foreign Specialists to the President, Government, and Federal Council of Russia.) Nezavisimaya gazeta (Independent Gazette), 6.06.94. ("One of the most widely read and respected of the serious newspapers." - Prof. Arch Getty). Also signed by the following Russians: Benjamin Sokolov, Konstantin Gofman, Vera Radina, Mark Klimenko, and Valentina Kapashkina.



  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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