Mason Gaffney Bibliography
1955 to Sept., 1995

I. Macro-economic Policy and Theory

I-1. "Toward Full Employment with Limited Land and Capital." In Arthur Lynn, Jr. (ed.), Property Taxation, Land Use and Public Policy. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1976, pp. 99-166.

I-2. "Capital Requirements for Economic Growth." Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, U.S. Economic Growth from 1976 to 1986: Prospects, Problems and Patterns. Vol. 8, pp. 56-75.

I-3. "Foreign Investment in U.S. Land." In Gene Wunderlich (ed.), Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate. Ec. Research Service, U.S.D.A., 1976, pp. 147-63.

I-4. "Property Taxation and the Frequency of Urban Renewal." Proceedings, NTA, 57th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 1965, pp. 272-85.

I-5. "Tax-induced Slow Turnover of Capital." Western Economic Journal, Sept. 1967, pp. 308-23. Abridged.

I-6. "Taxes, Capital and Jobs." Invited Paper delivered to NTA, special meeting, Chicago, August 1978.

I-7. Chairman, Conference on "Full Employment on a Small Planet." 1975 Annual Meeting of the Committee on Taxation, Resources, and Economic Development (TRED), Madison.

I-8. "Supply-side Economics." Paper delivered at seminar held for the purpose by and at The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Sta. Barbara, January 1982.

I-9. "Land, Taxation and Full Employment." Paper delivered at Conference on Tax Reform, sponsored by The Engineering Foundation and The Center for Public Dialogue, Washington D.C. Conference held at Franklin Pierce College, N.H., July 1982.

I-10. "Land Gains, Taxation, and Domestic Capital Formation." Paper presented to Western Economics Association, Lake Tahoe, June 1989.

I-11. Unabridged. "Tax-induced Slow Turnover of Capital." AJES 29(1):25-32 (Jan. 1970); 29(2):179-97 (April 1970); 29(3):277-87 (July 1970); 29(4):409-24 (Oct. 1970); 30(1):105-11 (January 1971). Unabridged -- cf. I-5, supra.

I-12. "Economist urges Faster Flow of Capital," Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise, 13 March 1983, p. F-9.

I-13. "Land Values and Inflation." Paper delivered before The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, Business and Finance Section, July 1971.

I-14. "Job Woes linked to Tax Biases." At UCR, ca. November 1982.

I-15. "Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate." The Guarantor, Chicago Title Insurance Co., Summer 1977.

I-16. "Full Employment and the Environment." In George Rohrlich (ed.), Environmental Management - Economic and Social Dimensions. Cambridge: Ballinger Press, 1976, pp. 81-102. Republished by Resources for the Future Inc., Full Employment and the Environment, Reprint No. 128, 1976.

I-17. "Full Employment through Total Tax Reform." Papers on Employment for All, (ISBN: 0 646 186140), pp. 1-27. Melbourne: Georgist Council of Australia (31 Hardware Street, Australia 3000). [Was Keynote Paper, Biennial Meeting, International Union, sponsored by Tax Reform Australia, Melbourne, at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, 27 September, 1993.]

I-18. I organized and chaired a conference on Tax Incentives, Capital Formation, Capital Conservation, and Capital Allocation, August, 1993. It was sponsored and hosted by The American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington MA. I wrote the following pilot paper: "Tax Policy and Capital Formation," pp. 1-46.

I-19. I organized and chaired a conference on Land Speculation and the Banking Collapse, October 20-22, 1994. It was sponsored and hosted by the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA. I wrote the following Pilot Papers: "Money, Credit and Crisis," pp. 1-23; "A Cycle of Boom and Bust: The U.S.A., 1820-42.," pp. 1-14; "A Cycle of Boom and Bust: Chicago, 1830-40 (exegesis on narrative of Homer Hoyt), pp. 1-13; "Limits on Bank Expansion, Regulatory and Non-regulatory," pp. 1-16; "Macroeconomic Chokes," pp. 1-25.

I-20. "Economic Development as Response to Stress: Evidence from California, 1846-1991," pp. 1-27.

I-21. "Peace Dividends, Land Bubbles, and Economic Disasters," 1991. Paper delivered to Biennial Meetings, International Union, Kings College, London, March.

I-22. A History of Peace Dividends. Long term book project: 300 pages of data assembled by date and topic. [Application for leave, 4/91, shows how this and the two items above are integrated with other work cited.]

I-23. All the materials listed below under "J", Replacement Theory and Policy, are oriented to macro-economics. I see them simply as case studies in macro-economics. Ironically, other economists tend to pigeon-hole them in the subclassifications of the case studies. My effort, so far unsuccessful, is to break down the firewalls among the compartments in which many economists divide knowledge and isolate themselves.



  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

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