Does the Henry George Theorem Provide a Practical Guide to Optimal City Size
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2799009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Arnott (ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1057-1090 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00334.x |
| OpenAlex | W2028345723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 12 |
The spatial distribution of economic activity is determined by a balancing of increasing and decreasing returns to scale activities. The Henry George Theorem states roughly that, if economic activity is efficiently organized over a "large" space, aggregate land rents equal the aggregate losses from the decreasing returns to scale activities. Kanemoto, Ohkawara, and Suzuki have tentatively applied the Henry George Theorem to investigate whether Tokyo has too large a population. This paper has two aims. The first is to explore the Theorem and its generality; the second is to examine whether it provides a promising conceptual foundation for estimating whether particular cities are over- or underpopulated
Aggregate (composite) · Archaeology · Cartography · Econometrics · Economic rent · Economics · Foundation (evidence) · Generality · Geography · George (robot) · Management · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Population · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Financing Public Capital When Rents Are Back
Productive Cities
Public goods and congestion in a system of cities
Land‐based financing of cities in India
Urban networks
Henry George and Mohring–Harwitz Theorems
Efficient decentralized fiscal and environmental policy
City size and the Henry George Theorem under monopolistic competition
Land taxation and the Henry George theorem under uncertainty
The Henry George Theorem in a second-best world
Bottleneck congestion and urban spatial structure with heterogeneous households
The optimal distribution of population across cities
Credit Market Imperfections, Urban Land Rents and the Henry George Theorem
Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation using Microgeographic Data
The Henry George Theorem and the Entrepreneurial Process
Taxation
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |