The Isolated State in Relation to Agriculture and Political Economy Part III: Principles for the Determination of Rent, the Most Advantageous Rotation Period and the Value of Stands of Varying Age in Pinewoods
by von Thünen, Johann; van Suntum, UlrichFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-06-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This volume is the first ever English translation of Part III of von Thunen's famous "Isolated State". It deals with the optimum rotation period of woods a central problem of capital theory which has been studied by many famous economists. Thunen's early approach to the problem compares very well with most of the later attempts.
Author Biography
ULRICH VAN SUNTUM is Professor of Economics at the Muenster University in Germany. He was formerly secretary general of the German Council of Economic Advisors and is engaged in both economic research and policy advice. His preferred areas of research are capital theory, labour economics, history of economic thought, and regional and housing economics. He has written several articles on Johann Heinrich von Thünen, both in German and in English.
Table of Contents
| Foreword to the English Translation | p. x |
| Preface | p. xii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Johann Heinrich von Thünen's Contribution to Forestry Economics: A Brief Introduction to Part III of the Isolated State | p. xvi |
| p. 1 | |
| Timber yield | p. 1 |
| Timber value | p. 2 |
| The determination of the value of pinewood stock of a given age | p. 5 |
| The determination of the value of timber stocks of differing rotation periods | p. 7 |
| The rent of the woodland soil | p. 9 |
| Calculations related to the rotation period | p. 12 |
| Thinning out | p. 18 |
| The rent of woodland in comparison with ground rent | p. 26 |
| Underwood or brushwood | p. 29 |
| The influence of the yield in value of thinnings on the most advantageous rotation period and on ground rent | p. 32 |
| The thinning methods employed by Chief Forester Nagel | p. 34 |
| Ground rent and rotation period from pollination, if thinning removes half the wooded growth | p. 39 |
| Comparison of the two methods, in which thinning removes | p. 41 |
| One-third of annual timber growth | |
| Half of this growth | |
| Concerning the part of the volume, which is captured by thinning | p. 41 |
| Concerning the rent of woodland | p. 42 |
| Concerning the ground rent | p. 44 |
| Concerning the rotation period | p. 46 |
| p. 48 | |
| How great does the space around each tree need to be in relation to its diameter if the annual growth in value of the entire woodland is to achieve a maximum? | p. 48 |
| The growth of individual trees in diameter and in physical volume | p. 51 |
| Calculation of the portion of the growth to be removed in thinning | p. 53 |
| Criticism | p. 64 |
| Ground rent and the most advantageous rotation period, if only 1/3 of the growth is left in the remaining stock | p. 74 |
| p. 78 | |
| What is the relationship between the growth of the tree and the space which each tree is given? | p. 78 |
| Calculation of total growth | p. 90 |
| Ground rent and most advantageous rotation period for different degrees of interval between trees | p. 95 |
| What part of the timber reserve is at different ages removed in decennial thinnings? | p. 100 |
| Deviation of the results of our calculation from reality | p. 102 |
| Comparison of the ground rent of woodland with that of arable land | p. 105 |
| Applications | p. 110 |
| Continuation | p. 114 |
| Epilogue: A Chronicle of Editing the Isolated State | p. 134 |
| Glossary | p. 137 |
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