Aggregate Land Rents, Expenditure on Public Goods, and Optimal City Size

@inproceedings{Arnott1979AggregateLR,
  title={Aggregate Land Rents, Expenditure on Public Goods, and Optimal City Size},
  author={R. Arnott and J. Stiglitz},
  year={1979}
}
I. An example, 473.—II. The generality of the Henry George Theorem, 477.—III. On using land rents as a measure of the benefits from public goods, 490.—IV. Competitive attainability of a Pareto optimal distribution of economic activity, 496.—V. Concluding comments, 498. 
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