Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

G. Public Finance

G-1. "Adequacy of Land as a Tax Base." In Daniel Holland (ed.), The Assessment of Land Value. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1970, pp. 157-212.

G-2. "Tax Treatment of Land Income." Economic Analysis and the Efficiency of Government. Hearings, U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Efficiency in Government, Part 2, pp. 405-15. Washington: USGPO, 1970.

G-3. "Tapping Land Rents after Prop. 13." Western Tax Review (annual), 1988, pp. 1-55.

G-4. "An Agenda for Strengthening the Property Tax." In George Peterson (ed.), Property Tax Reform. Washington: The Urban Institute, 1973, pp. 65-84. Originated as "The Property Tax and Intergovernmental Relations," 1972, a paper presented to The President's Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, meeting of September 14, pp. 1-33.

G-5. Extractive Resources and Taxation (ed.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. (Duplicate listing; detail under B-1, B-2.)

G-6. With John Shannon, "Property Tax Relief", a Symposium before the National Council of State Legislatures, Denver, 7 July 78.

G-7. The Role of Ground Rent in Urban Decay and Revival. The Henry George Lecture, St. Johns' University, September 1988. Distinguished Papers No. 89F-1, November 1989, Business Research Institute, St. John's University. Pp. 1-15. Distributed by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, New York. 2nd Printing retitled How to Revitalize a Failing City.

G-8. With Robert A. Andelson, "E.R.A. Seligman's Attack on 'The Single Tax'." In R.A. Andelson (ed.), Critics of Henry George. Madison, N.J.: The Fairleigh-Dickinson Univ. Press, 1979.

G-9. Organizer, Chair and Discussant, Session on "Federal Tax Policy for the 1990s," Annual Meetings, American Economic Association, New Orleans, January 1992. (William Vickrey, Alan Auerbach, and Joseph Minarik gave papers; Emil Sunley, Joseph Stiglitz and I were discussants.) Papers by Vickrey, Auerbach, and Minarik published in Annual Papers and Proceedings, pp. 257- 73.

G-10. "A Tax Tool for Meeting Urban Fiscal Crisis." AJES 29(3):253-58 (July 1968).

G-11. "In Praise of the Property Tax." The Washington Monthly, February 1973, lead article.

G-12. Consultant to Bruce Ricks on his "Economic Goals, Treasury Policy, and Real Estate Investments." This is based on my "Tax- induced Slow Turnover of Capital" (cited under Macro-economics), and develops a theoretical foundation for the Ricks Report to the U.S. Treasury, "Real Estate Investment and Federal Tax Policy," 1968. [Ricks became Assistant Director of HHFA under Preston Martin, 1968-72.]

G-13. "The Partiality of Indexing Capital Gains," 1991. Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Conference (1990) on Taxation, NTA-TIA, published Columbus, Ohio, September, 1991, pp. 49-53.

G-14. "Rent, Interest, Tax Rates, and Land Prices." A paper presented at The 19th Biennial World Conference, International Union, Session on "Fiscal Policy and the Theory of Rent," Kings College, London, 23 March 91, pp. 1-11 + Appendices.

G-15. With Nicolaus Tideman and William Vickrey, an open letter to Premier Gorbachev recommending a land tax for the new Russia. Signed by fifty professional economists, including four Nobel Laureates. 1990.

G-16. "Privatizing Land without Giveaway." In Tamara Chystyakova and Mason Gaffney (eds.), 1995, Russian Land Reform: Land and Property. St. Petersburg: Ekograd. (See C-21 and C-22, above.) [Originally, Paper delivered at Conference on Social Collection of Rent in the Soviet Union, New York, August 1990, pp. 1-32.]

G-17. "The Property Tax is a Progressive Tax." Proceedings, NTA, 64th Annual Conference, Kansas City, 1971, pp. 408-26. Republished in The Congressional Record, March 16, 1972, pp. E 2675-79 (Congr. Les Aspin.) Republished in Local Taxation (abridged), January 1972. Republished by Resources for the Future Inc., The Property Tax is a Progressive Tax, Reprint No. 104, October 1972.

G-18. "What is Property Tax Reform?" AJES 31(2):139-52, April 1972. (Originally a paper presented at Conference on Property Tax Reform, December 12, 1970, sponsored by Public Interest Research Group, George Washington University, with Ralph Nader, Sen. Edmund Muskie, Gov. Milton Shapp, Mason Gaffney, Ferdinand Schoettle, Pierpont I. Prentice, and John Rackham. Gaffney paper published by Cong. Les Aspin in The Congressional Record, March 16 1972, pp. E 2672-75.)

G-19. "The Many Faces of Site-Value Taxation." Report of Proceedings, 27th Tax Conference, Canadian Tax Foundation, Quebec City, 1976, pp. 749-63.

G-20. "Intergovernmental Competition for Energy Revenues." NTA Proceedings, 70th Annual Conference, Louisville, 1978.

G-21. "Indexing Capital Gains," 1990. Am. J. of Econs. and Sociology 49(4):399-400, October.

G-22. "The Spectre of Proposition 13: Preventive Measures." The Taxpayer's Revolt. Conference Report, August 1978. Conference sponsored by National Conference of State Legislatures and the Minnesota Legislature, St. Paul, August 3-4, 1978, pp. 55 ff.

G-23. Annual Report, Citizens' Budget Advisory Committee, to City Council, City of Riverside, 19 June, 1990. As Chair of CBAC I drafted the Report, steered it through the Committee, rewrote it for Committee approval, presented it to City Council, defended it, and saw The Council adopt its most important fiscal recommendation.

G-24. "Comment" on papers by John Hogan, Clyde Browning and Vincent Schmit, Session on property taxation, NTA Proceedings, 1967.

G-25. Chairman, Second General Session, "Property Taxation," NTA Proceedings, 62nd Annual Conference, Boston, 1970, pp. 51-108.

G-26. Review of Henry Aaron, Who Pays the Property Tax?, in JEL XVI:131-33, March, 1978.

G-27. "Tax Policies and Downtown." Downtown Deterioration in Orange County, California. Irvine: U. of California Extension, 1969, pp. 26-29.

G-28. "Proposition 13: an Alternative Reform." The Center Magazine, Sta. Barbara, Nov./Dec. 1978, pp. 19-28. [Originally a paper, "Tax Limitation and its Alternatives," presented at a meeting of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Sta. Barbara, August 1978.]

G-29. "The Taxable Capacity of Land," 1993. In Patricia Salkin (ed.), Land Value Taxation, Papers from a Conference sponsored by The Government Law Center of Albany Law School, The Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, and the New York State Division of Equalization and Assessment. Albany: The Government Law Center, pp. 59-82. There is also a Proceedings, with court- reported discussion, that the Government Law Center of Albany Law School published separately: Land Value Taxation, pp. 60-74.

G-30. "Evolution of the Income Tax, Past and Future." Paper presented to Conference on Deficit Reduction, Center for Public Economics, San Diego State University, Sept. 1986.

G-31. "Tax Exporting and the Commerce Clause." In Charles McLure and Peter Mieszkowski (eds.), Fiscal Federalism and the Taxation of Natural Resources. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1983, pp. 199-203.

G-32. "Revenue Sharing." Good Government, New South Wales, No. 867, December 1986, pp. 19-24.

G-33. "Harnessing the Profit Motive to Make Confederation Work Better," 1975. Paper presented to The Victoria Conference on Natural Resource Revenues, June 5-7. Anthony Scott, Chair. Pp. 1-16

G-34. "Equity Premises and the Case for Taxing Rent," 1992. J. David Baldwin and Ronald L. Oaxaca (eds.), Papers and Proceedings of the 104th Annual Meeting, AEA, May, 1992, pp. 274-79.

G-35. "Rent, Taxation, Dissipation and Federalism," 1990, Paper delivered at annual meetings, Western Economics Association, 2 July, San Diego, pp. 1-10.

G-36. "Megabucks for Negabucks: turning Treasury Leaks into Treasury Sources." Seminar led at Conference on Economics and Ecology, The Foundation for Basic Economic Education, San Diego, 20 April 1985.

G-37. "Effects of SCA 12 (Rodda)." Testimony, Committee on Revenue and Taxation, California State Senate, February 1977.

G-38. "Analysis of SSHB 200," a tax bill providing for a backstop tax on oil reserves in Alaska. Report to Joint Gas Pipeline Committee, Alaska State Legislature, June 1981. Pp. 1- 15.

G-39. "Land Gains, Fast Write-off, and Incentives to Build." Paper presented to 23d Annual Conference, Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development, Cambridge, Sept. 1985. Pp. 1-22.

G-40. "Land Gains and Taxation." Paper presented at 13th Annual Conference, Western Tax Association, San Diego, June 29, 1990. Pp. 1-15 + abstract.

G-41. "Taxation and Appropriate Technology." Paper presented at UC Conference on Appropriate Technology, sponsored by UC Committee on Appropriate Technology, UC Sta. Barbara, May, 1982.

G-42. "Recent Changes in Canadian Fiscal Federalism," Paper presented at Annual Conference, Western Tax Association, Las Vegas, 1984.

G-43. "Local Tax Revenues after Prop. 13." Paper presented to Symposium on State and Local Tax Revenues, The Center for Public Economics, San Diego State University, Feb. 2 1985.



  1. Forest Economics
  2. Extractive Resources, and Leasing Policy
  3. Land Economics, General
  4. Land Economics, Agricultural
  5. Land Economics, Urban
  6. Environmental Economics
  7. Public Finance
  8. Water Economics and Law
  9. Macro-economic Policy and Theory
  10. Replacement Policy and Theory
  11. History of Economic Thought
  12. General Economics
  13. Biography
  14. Teaching materials, used in lieu of texts
  15. Major unpublished papers, unfinished papers in progress

Return to Mason Gaffney Bibliography
Return to Mason Gaffney Profile
Return to Earth Rights Institute Associates
Return to Earth Rights Institute

Last modified: 9 October 1996

http://www.earthrights.net/associates/gaffney_bib_g.html