What is Land Economics?

Land Economics was first taught by Professor T. Wisconsin. Ely put it in his Outline of Land Economics, published in 1922. Since then, the increasing complexity of land issues brought about by social and economic operations, and the continuous innovation of economic science theories and methodologies have strongly promoted the formation and development of modern land economics theory and methodologies. The research fields of land economics include three aspects, namely land use economy; land system; land value. Land economics plays an important, leading and basic role in the discipline system of land. The construction and development of this discipline will effectively promote the perfection, scientificization and application of land discipline system.

Land economics

(Branch of Economics)

In a nutshell, it includes three aspects, namely land use economy; land system; land value.

Land use economy refers to the allocation and use of land in various sectors of the national economy, and specifically includes economic issues such as land resource surveys, technical and economic evaluations, land planning, land development, utilization, protection and improvement. The study is about the relationship between people and land.

The land system refers to the problems of land ownership, land use, and the establishment, evolution, and implementation of land state management systems. What is being studied is what happens between people in land use

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The basic role of land economics is mainly reflected in the entire process of land discipline construction, development and practice.

The main basic theories of land economics are:

Today's land economic problems are becoming more and more complicated. The solution of land economic problems must rely on the theory and method system of economics or other disciplines. Of course, this itself has also promoted the development of land economics. Based on this understanding, the current frontier problems of land economics and their possible solutions are:

The first is to study the relationship between land market order and regional economic development from the perspective of government land use behavior. There are some major land issues that have a lot to do with the government s increasing dependence on land revenue. At the same time, this is related to the pursuit of achievement economy,

Land economics is a wide-ranging and comprehensive discipline that involves many areas of social science, such as political economics, resource economics, ecological economics, productivity economics, finance, money and banking, and markets. A series of disciplines such as price and law. As for the land economic problem, it is necessary to use Marxist dialectical materialism, historical materialism, and political economics as the theoretical guidance, and use various methods to conduct research. The most important and most commonly used are the following methods.

Abstract Thinking Method of Land Economics

For social science issues, abstract thinking is based on in-depth practical investigations and possession of a large amount of objective factual materials. It uses people's abstract thinking abilities to "process" and raises perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge, and finds the nature and regularity of things. This is the most basic way to study all social science issues, and land economic issues are no exception. The use of this method to study land economic problems is to deepen the reality of the relationship between land use and land economics, conduct repeated investigations and research, and use abstract thinking methods to find the regularity of the development and change of actual land economic problems and specific countermeasures.

Systematic analysis method of land economics

As a specific part of the earth, land is a basic factor of the entire earth's ecosystem, and the land system is a subsystem of the socio-economic system. The study of land economic issues cannot be carried out in isolation. It must be integrated into the entire natural ecosystem and socio-economic system for systematic and comprehensive research and analysis, from which to find the internal relationship between the elements of the earth's eco-economic system, and explore its regularity and its Operating mechanism. Only in this way can we finally find the correct way to solve the land economic problem.

Method combining qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis

All things are the unity of quality and quantity, and the qualitative stipulation is reflected by the quantitative stipulation, and the change of quantity depends on the change of matter and matter in the final analysis. This is the common law of the development of things, as is the problem of land economy. Any land economic problem has both qualitative and quantitative aspects. To study and solve any land economic problem, we must simultaneously study its qualitative and quantitative aspects. When studying the land use structure and layout of a country or region, it is necessary to make basic judgments on the basic nature and characteristics of the land use structure and layout, problems and development directions of the country or region, and at the same time, its quantitative performance and The specific analysis of the change law and the close combination of the two can only find the correct way to solve the problem.

Method combining static analysis and dynamic analysis

Land economics research must closely combine static analysis and dynamic analysis. Such as studying and judging whether the form of land rent in a country or region is reasonable, whether it is conducive to correctly handling the interests of both the lease and the tenant, and whether it is conducive to promoting the rational use of land, this first requires many factors and conditions that affect and determine the form of rent For static analysis, it is also necessary to analyze and study the past and future development of these factors and conditions from a dynamic perspective, and to combine the two analyses dialectically in order to make the final judgment and choice of the land rent form of the country or region. .

Method of combining micro analysis and macro analysis

The problems of land economy are both microscopic and macroscopic. The economic problems of land at the grassroots level of the enterprise belong to the microscopic aspect: the economic problems of land at the national level or in a larger area belong to the macroscopic aspect. The macro should be based on the micro, and in the final analysis the micro should be restricted by the macro. Therefore, in order to study land economic issues, we must analyze both from a micro perspective and a macro perspective, and combine the two well. For example, for the decision-making research of a land development project, of course, we must first analyze and study the direct economic benefits that the project can bring to the enterprise and unit as the main body of development; at the same time, we must also analyze and study the project's possible macroeconomic effects The ecological and environmental benefits and social benefits can only be determined by weighing the pros and cons. ^[2]