Land and Poverty in the United States: Insights and Oversights
认为贫困分析不能脱离财富,土地通过影响财富、收入、安全和环境来塑造贫困,并重新审视了美国土地政策对财富再分配的作用。
The paper departs from conventional treatments of poverty as a function of income and employment. It advances the view that analyses of poverty cannot be separated from those of wealth and that land influences wealth and poverty in a variety of important ways. This case is supported by revisiting the place of landed property in the distribution of wealth in America and three areas of land policy which redistribute wealth. The paper expands the definition of poverty to include land, having established ties between land and income, land and security, and finally land and the sustenance of a healthy environment.