Bibliography: Land, Population, and Food

Barnes, Peter

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  • "The Vanishing Small Farmer," The New Republic (1971-72).
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    Bassani, Luigi Marco

  • "Life, Liberty, and . . . : Jefferson on Property Rights," Journal of Libertarian Studies Volume 18, no. 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 31–87.

    Beard, Charles A.

  • An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, 1913. [pdf file]

    Beer, M.

  • (ed. and introduction) The Pioneers of Land Reform: Thomas Spence, William Ogilvie, Thomas Paine, 1920.

    Brown, Jennifer

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    Cadbury, George

  • (and Tom Bryan) The Land and the Landless (1908)

    Chomsky, Noam

  • Links to books and excerpts.

    Chrucky, Andrew,

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    Clark, Ramsey

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    Commons, John R.,

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    Danhof, Clarence H.,

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    Devyr, Thos. Ainge

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    Eayrs, James

  • "The Political Ideas of the English Agrarians, 1775-1815," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Vol. XVIII, no. 3, Aug., 1952, pp. 287-302.

    Ehrlich, Paul and Anne,

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    Fitzhugh, George,

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    Foldvary, Fred E.

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    Franklin, Benjamin

  • "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc." (1751)

    Fremery, Robert De

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    Friedman, Milton,

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    George, Henry (1839-1897)

  • The complete works of Henry George
    1. Progress and poverty.
    2. Social problems.
    3. The land question. Property in land. The condition of labor.
    4. Protection or free trade.
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    6. The science of political economy, books I and II.
    7. The science of political economy, books III to V. "Moses": a lecture.
    8. Our land and land policy.
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    10. The life of Henry George, by his son Henry George, jr

    Gerassi, John

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    Gilbert, Amos

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    Goodrich, Carter, and Sol Davison,

  • "The Wage-Earner in the Westward Movement. I. The Statement of the Problem," Political Science Quarterly, L (June, 1935): 179-180.
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    Gutelman, Michel

  • "The Socialization of the Means of Production in Cuba," Chapter 2 of L'Agriculture socialisee a Cuba (Paris: Francois Maspero, 1967).

    Hall, Charles,

  • The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States, 1805.

    Hibbard, B. H.,

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    Hyder, Josephy

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    Jackson, Helen Hunt

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    Johnson, Chalmers

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    Kane, Murray

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    Land and Freedom

    Langevin, Mark S.

  • (and Peter Rosset) "Land Reform From Below: The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil" MST (1997).

    Lause, Mark A.

  • "The Hard-Earned Obscurity of Thomas Skidmore," Introduction to A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Skidmore, With Appended Selections from Skidmore's Rights of Man to Property!, Introduced, annotated & edited by Mark A. Lause (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1984).

    Letelier, Orlando

  • "The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awfull Toll," The Nation, August 28, 1976.

    Locke, John,

  • An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government: Second Treatise on Government, 1690. (Chapter 5 - Of Property)

    Malefakis, E.

  • Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain, New Haven and London, 1970.

    Malthus, Thomas

  • An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers (1798).

    Masquerier, Lewis

  • Sociology: or, The Reconstruction of Society, Government, and Property. New York, 1877. [pdf file -- "Evans and Land Reform," -- "Sketch of the Land Reform Development, and Life of George Henry Evans "

    Minor, Charles Landon Carter (1835-1903)

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    Morris, Richard B. Morris

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    Nachie

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  • Slavery: As an Industrial System (Ethnological Researches), 2d edition, 1909. -- [pdf file -- 1st ed. 1900]

    Ogilvie, William

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    Ostrom, Elinor

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    Paine, Thomas

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    Parssinen, T. M.

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    Patel, Raj

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    Phillips, William A.

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    Reed, John,

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    Robbins, Roy M.,

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    Schafer, Joseph

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    Shannon, Fred A.,
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    Skidmore, Thomas

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    Smith, Henry Nash,

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    Smith, Samuel

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    Spence, Thomas

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    Spengler, Joseph J.,

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    Stavenhagen, Rodolfo

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    Swartz, Clarence Lee

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    Taft, Philip

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    Thirsk, Joan

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    Trefzger, Douglas W.

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    Turner, Frederick Jackson,

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    Wallace, Alfred Russel

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    Wikipedia

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    Wilson, Roland Knyvet

  • Individualism and the Land Question, 1912. [pdf file]

    Woodward, C. Vann

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    Zandt, Roland Van,

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    Zinn, Howard

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