Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

O. Unpublished (partial listing only)

This listing comprises papers not listed elsewhere. Several other papers presented to scholarly groups, but not otherwise published, are listed in the main bibliography. Several of those, too, are publishable with updating, as time allows.

Work Partly Completed, in Active Progress

O-1. "The Taxable Capacity of Land." A Chapter for publication in Fred Harrison (ed.), Private Property and Public Finance. (Everything is complete except this Chapter, so it will be published quickly. This Chapter is much more thorough than the Albany paper of the same title.)

O-2. "Causes of Downturn." George's macro-economic theory modified and extended to meld it with Austrian analysis.

O-3. "Land-value Gains and the Capital Gains Tax." A chapter originally accepted for publication in Richard Noyes (ed.), Now the Synthesis. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1991. Pp. 1-49. The series editor, Fred Harrison, pulled it out for expanding into a book, The World Capital Shortage, which he and I are now working up.

O-4. Common Waters in Private Keeping, "Watermark Essays on Economic Use and Common Rights." A book of normative democratic writings, collected and edited and to be published by Mason Gaffney.

O-5. "George's Economics of Abundance: Replacing Dismal Choices with Practical Resolutions and Synergies." Accepted for publication by Fred Harrison, General Editor, Shepheard-Walwyn Series on The Georgist Paradigm.

O-6. The Unhappy History of Peace Dividends and their Consequences

O-7. "What Price Water Marketing?" Pp. 1-25.


Older work to be revised and updated

O-8. "Comparative Effects of Different Forest Tax Regimes on Economic Development."

O-9. "Large Farms: Land without Buildings." Material deleted by U.S.D.A. officials from "Rising Concentration and Falling Property Tax Rates," possibly because it is critical of certain U.S.D.A. and U.S. Census statistical errors (e.g. their failure to correct for "regression fallacy.") This is material for another article by another publisher.

O-10. "Who Owns Southern California?" Pp. 1-20 + Appendices. Data and commentary on concentration of landholdings, originally 1988; continually being revised and updated from current data. I draw on this for various articles, and will finally publish it separately when it shall have enough depth and I shall have time.

O-11. "Time, Taxes, Turnover and Intensity." A reply to comment by Henry Goldstein and Procter Thomson on my "Tax-induced Slow Turnover of Capital," published in Western Economic J. WEJ editors returned it for shortening. Meantime Anthony Chisholm replied on my behalf, using some of this material. I have incorporated it into "Taxes on Yield, Property, Income and Site," to be polished and published.

O-12. "Irrigation Districts and Economic Development." Pp. 1- 16.

O-13. "On Capital and 'Re-switching'." Pp. 1-17, 1979. Intra- departmental use, is publishable.

O-14. "Benefits of Military Spending." An inquiry into the doctrine that national defense is a public good. MS, pp. 1-94, orig. 1972, needs updating.

O-15. "Logos Abused: The Decadence and Tyranny of Abstract Reasoning in Economics," pp. 1-19.

O-16. Johannesburg and Cape Town: Enterprise vs. Languor


Odd papers for which I have no publication plans

O-17. "Taiwan, Taipeh and Taoyuan," pp. 1-15. Informal, travelogue-style notes on land use and taxation, November 1988.

O-18. "Land Ethics," 1987, pp. 1-8. Suggested topics for Research, The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

O-19. Consulting, Stanley Hoffman Associates, re producing a Manual for SCAQMD, to standardize methods of defining costs per unit of pollution control. April-June, 1990. Several reports of professional quality were produced, and results presented to officials of SCAQMD.

O-20. "Effect of Proposed Emission Controls on Jobs and Growth." Analysis of two Reports to SCAQMD, Industry, California, July 31, 1989.

O-21. Report to The City Council, Moreno Valley, CA, 30 August 1991, critiquing the Fiscal Impact Analysis of September, 1990, by Roger M. Rostvold, Consultant. (Rostvold's Analysis is bound in the Technical Appendix to Draft EIR, Specific Plan #212-1, June, 1991.) My Report was done at the request of Jane (Mrs. Richard) Block of Riverside, and some Moreno Valley residents. It concerns the impact of a development proposed at the east end of Moreno Valley.

O-22. Review of recent works on Chinese Economic Development, 1988, pp. 1-26.

O-23. "Response to Queries on Tax Reform and Social Justice." Memo to Fr. Alan McCoy et al, The Franciscan Order, Mission Sta. Barbara, CA.

O-24. Several reports and opinions on economic analysis of City investments in electrical generating capacity; and another on the City's interest in the Peripheral Canal proposal. Written in my capacity as a Commissioner, City of Riverside Board of Public Utilities, 1982-86. 1985-86, Chair of Electric Committee.

O-25. 83 "Mismanagement at UCR: Economics and its Critics." Review of allegations about slow graduate student turnover, 12/83, pp. 1-29 +12.

O-26. 84 "The Quality of Resource Economics at UCR: Academic Politics vs. Scholarly Productivity." Pp. 1-14.

O-27. 90 Recommendation on Financial, Educational, Publishing, and Academic Policies, 1990. Report to Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, in my capacity as a Director.



  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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