Wheels of Fortune: Self-Funding Infrastructure and the Free Market Case for a Land Tax

by Fred Harrison

It is often assumed that government intervention is required to bring to fruition large scale infrastructure projects because the large initial capital outlays such projects require must be funded from the public purse. In "Wheels of Fortune", Fred Harrison shows that large scale infrastructure projects can be made self-funding. Infrastructure projects almost always bring about a large increase in the value of adjoining land. For example, it is estimated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0255365896
• ISBN13: 9780255365895
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
• Length: 144 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"