Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship, and Natural Resources: Witless Policy and the Barrier Islands

William J. Siffin
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William J. Siffin: Indiana University, Bloomington

Cato Journal, 1981, vol. 1, issue 1, 293-311

Abstract: There are about 1,605,000 acres in about 300 barrier islands and spits in the United States.’ They rim the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Cape Cod to the Mexican border and vary from small units of 50 acres or less to islands of more than 100,000 acres. Some are lit- tle more than elevated sand bars. Others are complex structures made up of sand dunes with prolific vegetation. There are also mangrove islands and some remnants of an earlier coastal plain...

Keywords: Government; taxation; revenue; bureacracy; entrepreneurship; insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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