Land monopoly

A land monopoly occurs when an entity or a class is able to corner the market on land. According to Winston Churchill, "Land monopoly is not the only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies – it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly."[1] According to anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard, "Land monopoly is far more widespread in the modern world than most people – especially most Americans – believe. In the undeveloped world, especially in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, feudal landholding is a crucial social and economic problem – with or without quasi-serf impositions on the persons of the peasantry."[2] Mutualist Benjamin Tucker classified, as one of the four forms of monopoly, the state's enforcement of "land titles which do not rest upon personal occupancy and cultivation."[3]

There are numerous mechanisms of ameliorating land monopolization.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.progress.org/banneker/chur.html
  2. ↑ http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/eleven.asp
  3. ↑ http://www.mutualist.org/id66.html
  4. ↑ http://www.sfrgroup.org/Home/location-value-covenants


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