According to the conventional wisdom, road transportation would be highly inefficient without the governments power of eminent domain, because property owners could refuse to sell their property at the governments asking price. In reality, there are strong grounds for thinking that private, for-profit road companies would have fewer problems with holdouts and few problems as severe as that of government failure in road transportation.
The Mythology of Holdout as Justification for Eminent Domain and Public Provision of Roads
By Bruce L. Benson
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the Fall 2005 issue of The Independent Review.
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Fall 2014 | Lets Focus on Victim Justice, Not Criminal Justice | |
Winter 2007/08 | The Evolution of Eminent Domain: Market Failure or an Effort to Limit Government Power and Government Failure? | |
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