The economics of eminent domain: Private property, public use, and just compensation

Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-329

  Miceli, Thomas J ^a   Segerson, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Eminent domain; Just compensation; Land use incentives; Public use

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655178255     PISSN: 15479846     EISSN: 15479854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/0700000025     Document Type: Article

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