Making property productive
Subtitle: reorganizing rights to real and equitable estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
By: Dan Bogart, Gary Richardson.
Contributors: Richardson, Gary.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14107; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14107.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Between 1660 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates.  These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by inheritance rules and other legal legacies.  The loosening of these legal constraints facilitated the reallocation of land and resources towards higher-value uses.  Data reveals correlations between estate acts, urbanization, and economic development during the decades surrounding the Industrial Revolution"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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