The recent widely cited National Agricultural Lands Study (NALS) adds to the growing number of individuals and organizations holding the view that land resources are too important to be left to the “whims of market forces.” In this view, there should be a shift from private ownership of land to social or political control of land use.
Land-Use Planning: Implications of the Economic Calculation Debate
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Pasour, E.C. “Land-Use Planning: Implications of the Economic Calculation Debate.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 7, No. 1 (1983): 127–139.