U.S. Land Policy, Property Rights, and The Dust Bowl of the 1930s

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5720
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Type:	Book
Author:	Libecap, Gary D.; Hansen, Zeynep K.
Conference:	Property Rights, Institutions, and Management of Environmental and Natural Resources, the Fourth Toulouse Conference on Environment and Resource Economics
Location:	Toulouse, France
Conf. Date:	May 3-4, 2001
Date:	2001
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5720
Sector:	Agriculture History Land Tenure & Use
Region:	North America
Subject(s):	land tenure and use property rights drought agriculture
Abstract:	"Many environmental issues examined by economists and political scientists, such as common-pool problems, result from the absence of well-defined property rights. The issue examined in this paper, is a different, although related one. Here we address the environmental costs of an inappropriate allocation of property rights, where the rights distribution does not rapidly adjust to a more efficient arrangement."

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