Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Ryan-Collins, Josh -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Contents Figures, tables and boxes Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary Foreword by John Muellbauer 1 Introduction

1.1 What is land? 1.2 What is the value of land? 1.3 Landownership and economic rent 1.4 Summary of chapters

2 Landownership and property

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Landownership: origins of the theory and forms 2.3 Landownership as freedom: secure title and economic growth 2.4 Landownership as theft: power and economic rent 2.5 Hypothesis: property is liberty, property is theft 2.6 Responses to the ownership paradox 2.7 Conclusion

3 The missing factor: land in production and distribution

4 Land for housing: land economics in the modern era

4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Industrial Revolution and the growth of cities 4.3 1900–1970: world wars and the golden age of capitalism 4.4 1970 onwards: the emergence of ‘residential capitalism’ 4.5 The new political economy of housing 4.6 Conclusion

5 The financialisation of land and housing

6 Land, wealth and inequality

6.1 Introduction 6.2 Trends in economic inequality 6.3 Traditional explanations for increasing inequality 6.4 The role of land and economic rent in increasing inequality 6.5 Why inequality matters 6.6 Conclusion

7 Putting land back into economics and policy

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Ownership 7.3 Tax reform 7.4 Financial reform 7.5 Reforms to tenure 7.6 Planning reform 7.7 Changes to economics and national accounting 7.8 Conclusion

Bibliography Index