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Suburban Encroachment on the Old North 40: The Search for Effective Measures to Preserve Agricultural Land
Author(s) -
Conard Rebecca
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1983.tb01705.x
Subject(s) - statute , legislation , value (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , agriculture , natural resource economics , land value , variety (cybernetics) , land use , agricultural land , economics , business , environmental planning , public economics , geography , law , political science , engineering , computer network , civil engineering , archaeology , machine learning , artificial intelligence , computer science
A bstract . Since 1956, more than 40 states have passed some form of legislation to preserve agricultural land. These statutes or constitutional amendments invoke a variety of economic and/or legal strategies to obtain their objectives, but the most common strategy is that of the differential tax. None of the various strategies is entirely effective, however, although land resource allocation problems have prompted some economists to reexamine the merits of land value taxation. A survey of pertinent literature on land value taxation is examined in an effort to determine whether a system based on single tax principles might offer a simpler, more equitable, and therefore preferable solution to the problem of land resource allocation according to criteria believed to foster environmental conservation or social goals.