Land Scarcity and American Growth.

Argues that intuition is about half right regarding the links among land scarcity, farm land rents, population growth and economic growth in the United States (U.S.). Theory of economist Alfred Marshall on the intuition that higher growth leads to land scarcity; Determinants of overall land rents; Effects of economic growth and population growth on farm and residence land rents; Trends in land scarcity in the U.S.