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Fiscal capacity is the ability of the government to raise revenues, and is frequently measured as the proportion of gross domestic product generated by tax revenue. [2] [4] Overall, wealthier developed countries have larger, stronger tax administrations and raise more money through tax revenue than poorer, developing countries. [2]
Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It aims to describe and predict economic patterns of supply and demand . The closely related field of housing economics is narrower in scope, concentrating on residential real estate markets, while the research on real estate trends focuses on the business ...
There are multiple dimensions of state capacity, as well as varied indicators of state capacity. [10] [11] In studies that use state capacity as a causal variable, it has frequently been measured as the ability to tax, provide public goods, enforce property rights, achieve economic growth or hold a monopoly on the use of force within a ...
This is also known as a common property resource, impure public good or sometimes erroneously as a common pool resource. [13] A common pool resource however is often managed the group of people that have access to that resource [14]. Examples of this can be air, water, sights, and sounds. Tragedy of the commons refers to this title. An example ...
Some United Kingdom and commonwealth universities offer courses in land economy, where economics is studied alongside law, business regulation, surveying, and the built and natural environments. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This mode of study at Cambridge dates back to 1917 when William Cecil Dampier suggested the creation of a school of rural economy ...
In general usage, rent refers to a payment made in exchange for temporary use of property, for example paying rent to stay in an apartment. In economics, rent is any payment to an owner or factor of production in excess of the costs needed to bring that factor into production. Effectively, it is payment made to a producer above and beyond what ...
As for large landed property, its defenders have always sophistically identified the economic advantages offered by large-scale agriculture with large-scale landed property, as if it were not precisely as a result of the abolition of property that this advantage, for one thing, received its greatest possible extension, and, for another, only ...
In his article on Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy, Christian Kerschner has integrated the strategy of declining-state, or degrowth, with Herman Daly's concept of the steady-state economy to the effect that degrowth should be considered a path taken by the rich industrialized countries leading towards a globally equitable steady ...