Vassar College Economics Working Paper #85

Kelo, Cuno, and the Broken Window

Alan C. Marco and Jonathan C. Rork (November 2006)

Abstract

        In June 2005, the Supreme Court made one of its least popular decisions in recent history. In Kelo v. New London, the Court missed a simple point: that local decision makers make local decisions.

Keywords: property rights, eminent domain

JEL Classifications: K11

Working Paper (224 K)