My Chapter on “Land Use Regulation” For the Forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Classical Liberalism
A draft of my chapter on “Land Use Regulation” for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Classical Liberalism (edited by Richard Epstein, Liya Palagashvili, and Mario Rizzo) is now available on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Land use regulation is a major function of every government in the world. It raises many issues for classical liberalism. This chapter provides an overview of three of the most important areas of land-use policy: the use of eminent domain to forcibly take property for government-approved projects, regulations that restrict property owners’ use of their land, and the relationship between property rights in land and migration restrictions.
Part I covers the use of eminent domain to take private property, and argu
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