The Economics of Eminent Domain: Private Property, Public Use, and Just Compensation presents an overview of the economics of eminent domain. Beginning with a brief review of the relevant case law for both physical acquisitions and for regulatory takings, the authors survey the economics literature examining eminent domain.
Written for a general audience, the book advances a coherent theory that views eminent domain within the context of the government's proper role in an economic system whose primary objective is to achieve efficient land use.
To educate citizens and prevent future abuse, this book exposes both the good and the bad aspects of government's ability to use their power of eminent domain to acquire private property.
This edited collection is the first to use a common framework to analyze the law and economics of eminent domain around the world.
The taking of private property for development projects has caused controversy in many nations, where it has often been used to benefit powerful interests at the expense of the general...
A collection of essays that examines the use and abuse of eminent domain across the world.
The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves. Discussion centers on a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kelo v.
While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought that comprise Law ...
Marginal Cost Pricing and Eminent Domain integrates the economics of takings with the hitherto separate literature on land assembly and the associated literature on self-assessment that analyzes ways of providing owners with the incentive ...
In Batten v. United States,^ the question, as stated by the court, was "whether a taking of property, compensable under the Fifth Amendment, occurs when there is no physical invasion of the affected property but the operation and ...
'Market and Institutional Determinants in the Regulation of Conveyancers', 23 European Journal of Law and Economics, ... 'An Economic Analysis of the Land Systems for Transferring Real Property', 6 Journal of Legal Studies, 213–33.