Arbeitspapier

The Control of Land Rent in the Fortified Farming Town

We consider costly administration at the center of a farming community surrounding a fortified village. Land rent taxation is high cost mode of financing central administration in a tax incidence sense. Participatory administration by the governed is a lower cost alternative. We speculate why the low cost option has been out-competed by its higher cost alternative throughout history. We also take up constraints on predation on farmers by a landlord at the center.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1096

Classification
Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Subject
administrative structure
public goods
welfare cost

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hartwick, John
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Queen's University, Department of Economics
(where)
Kingston (Ontario)
(when)
2006

Handle
Last update
10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET

Data provider

This object is provided by:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.

Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hartwick, John
  • Queen's University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2006

Other Objects (12)