Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

• "L.A. Sprawl: How Did We Get This Way?" 1993, pp. 1-2.

• "Land as a Superior Good: Data from B.C." 1992. Pp.1-2.

• "Land/building Ratios in Los Angeles County." 1985, pp. 1-9.

• "Lost Arts," 1992. P.1

• "Rents and Land Values in Southern California, 1976-95." About 50 pages of primary data gathered, accumulated, sorted and reproduced for student use, continuously updated.

• "Some Economics of Land Division and Density; Are Collective Costs Matched to Individual Benefits?" 1993, pp.1-5.

• Analyzing Cities by Observing Detail in Aerial Photos. Text to accompany slide presentation. 1994. Pp.1-35

• Basic Land Measures: Area and Length. Rev. 1990, pp. 1-10.

• Chains, Rods, Acres, and Land Division by Quartering. 1987, pp.1-3.

• Land Reserved for Parking, Golf, and the Dead. 1989, pp.1-4.

• Major U.S. Cities Ranked by Density, Population, and Area, 1900- 94. pp.1-6.

• Neighborhood Names: a Quick Read on Any City. 1990, pp.1-17

N.B. The works below have been updated, expanded, and compiled, 1995. The bound volumes are submitted herewith, and are part of this statement.

THE FOREGOING STATEMENT WAS SUBMITTED TO GRANFIELD, CA. 18 OCT. 95, AS PART OF HIS ILLEGAL REVIEW. SO WAS THE LIST BELOW. HOWEVER, THE LIST BELOW IS NOT KEYED TO THE GREEN-COVERED BOUND VOLUMES SUBMITTED. I NEED TO UPDATE THE LIST BELOW. NOTE THAT PROBLEM SETS ARE NOT LISTED.

• "Airport Congestion, Regulation, and Marginal-cost Pricing." 1988, pp.1-3.

• "Basic Mathematics of Finance", notes, 28 April 86, Rev. 16 Sept 91), pp. 1-50. Used in Ec. 162, Managerial Economics, and as basic reference in other courses. 3/4 of this material is "textbooky," but parts are innovative.

• "Calculating Mean Periods of Investment by means of Normalized Models." Rev. 1992, pp. 1-26.

• "Capital, Turnover and Payback Time," 1991, pp. 1-8.

• "Carter's Cut, or How to Lose Money on Junk Bonds." 1992, pp. 1-2

• "Choosing Harvest Date to Maximize Present Value of Timber." 1988, pp.1-3.

• "Continuous Compounding vs. Annual and Monthly Compounding." Pp.1-2.

• "Economies and Diseconomies of Scale." Orig. 1986; rev. 1993.

• "Effect of Land Prices on Rates of Return on Investments." 1985, pp.1-12.

• "Finding Rates of Return after Taxes." 1991, pp.1-2

• "Finding Optimal Life of Capital Affixed to Land." Pp. 1-2.

• "Fortune's 500, Analysis of Rankings, with Implications for Tax Policy and the Understanding of Economies of Scale." 8 Pp., 1981.

• "Labor Productivity and Farm Intensity," 1993, pp.1-4.

• "Mathematical Techniques for Optimization." 31 pp., 25 Oct 83.

• "Maximizing Net Present Value in Perpetuity." 1992, pp.1-5.

• "Minimizing Cost of Holding an Inventory." 1992, pp.1-4.

• "Optimal Factor Combinations." 1986, pp. 1-31.

• "Optimal Replacement with Declining Cash Flow." Pp. 1-11, Nov. 1981

• "Possessory Value and Resale Value of Land: Sensitivity to Interest Rates."

• "Present Value of Periodic Capital Costs." 1993, pp. 1-4.

• "Price Risk and Term of Bond, Note or Bill." 1993, pp.1-9.

• "Production Economics: Variable Proportions of Inputs." 1988, pp.1-60, in three installments.

• "Repayment Schedules." 1988, pp.1-2.

• "Sensitivity Analysis." 1992, pp.1-4.

• "Substitution, Economics and Mathematics: Finding Optimal Dimensions of a Cylinder." Pp. 1-17, Fall 1985.

• "Using Semi-log Scales." 1992, pp.1-2.

• "What is Economic Intensity?" 1988, pp.1-9

• "Basic Mathematics for Dealing with Appreciation, Depreciation and Taxation." 1984, pp. 1-6.

• "Finding Rates of Return on Investments after Taxes." 7 May 87; rev 15 Sept 91. Pp. 1-2.

• "Justice in Distribution: Discordant Canons, Harmonious Resolution." 1989, Rev. 1991. Pp. 1-27.

• "Preferential Income Tax Treatment of Land Gains." 1989, pp.1-6.

• "Rising Rents: Valuation, Carrying Costs, and the Effects of Property Taxation." 1985. Rev. 16 Sept 91; pp. 1-12.

• "The Property Tax: Outline of Theory and Practice." 1986, pp.1-9.

• "Theories of Property: What Do We Own?" 1991, pp. 1-8

• "How to Write Better Exams." 1/92, p.1.

• "Some Common Fallacies and Myths in Economic Discourse." 1994, pp. 1-52.

• "Tautologies I have known," pp.1-11 and growing.

• Marginal Notations used in Grading Papers, pp. 1-9

• "A Cycle of Boom and Bust: Chicago, 1830-40." W91. Exegesis on narrative of Homer Hoyt. Pp. 1-13.

• "A Cycle of Boom and Bust: The U.S.A., 1820-42." May, 1993

• "Capital, Turnover and Payback Time," revised and adapted for course in Macro, 1/91, pp. 1-8.

• "Characteristics of Macro-economics as a Field of Study." 5/85, rev. 1/91. Pp. 1-15.

• "Kinds of Positive Feedback in Economics." 1992. Pp. 1-5.

• "Limits on Bank Expansion, Regulatory and Non-regulatory." 1991, pp. 1-16.

• "Macro Problems Outstanding." Rev. 14 May 91. Pp. 1-3.

• "Macro-economic Chokes." 1991, pp. 1-23.

• "Money, Credit and Crisis." Orig. 5/85; revised 1/91; rev. 5/91. Pp.1-24.

• "How to Meet a Liquidity Crisis." 24 Feb 91. Pp. 1-2.

• "What are the Sources of Investable Funds?" Pp. 1-2, Spring 1987.

• "What is Macro-economics?." Class use, pp. 1-14, 1981.

• "Environment as Study, Science and Discipline." Pp. 1-4. Prospectus for interdisciplinary studies in environmental economics. 1975.

• "Georgists and Marxists", 12 pp.

• Teaching notes on Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1992, pp. 1-160

• Teaching notes on Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership, 1992, pp. 1-10

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