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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1096
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Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
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administrative structure
public goods
welfare cost
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hartwick, John
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Veröffentlichung
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Queen's University, Department of Economics
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Kingston (Ontario)
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2006
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hartwick, John
- Queen's University, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2006