Strictly Confidential by David Gordon

Strictly Confidential by David Gordon

Author:David Gordon [Gordon, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute


Ashton also settles the enclosure question at last, demonstrating that:

The enclosures were often by voluntary agreement and by voluntary purchase of rights

The parliamentary enclosures were largely of common land, commonly owned, thus implying that these acts were not robbery but the beneficial transforming of communal into individual property

That the result was a vast increase in agricultural productivity, due to the larger farms, the end of the vicious open-field system, and the fact that the land was owned by an individual leading to its conserving rather than to overgrazing, as in the past (the same point made by Scott for conservation of natural resources)

The enclosed forests were conserved properly by the private landlords (again the same point)



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