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The Political Rhetoric of Property and Natural Resource Ownership: A Meditation on Chance, Taxation and Appalachia 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Fraley, J.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
  • 출판년도2012
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
  • 발행사항Vol.25No.2[2012]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN
  • 소개/요약While our legal system embraces a myriad of forms of property, our political rhetoric of property narrowly speaks of individual ownership and control, fostering a strong dichotomy between public and private property. This rhetoric has also led us to embrace a chance-based division of our natural resource wealth and to refrain from significantly taxing these resources. I compare alternative methods of natural resource ownership in the United States and Australia, suggesting that poverty in natural-resource-rich areas such as Appalachia might be addressed by changes in taxation of natural-resource wealth. Addressing the notion of personal-identity-connected-with-property as a traditional objection to changes in property law structures, I suggest that due to the development of a strong regional identity, Appalachia offers an example of one case where personal connections to land favor changes in existing property structures.