The Land Trap

The Land TrapBy: Mike Bird How the worlds oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economy In The Land Trap, Mike BirdWall Street editor at The Economistreveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influence over the modern world. From the speculative land grabs of colonial America to China's real estate crisis today, Bird shows how fortunes are builtand destroyedon the bedrock of land. Tracing three centuries of history, Bird explores how land quietly

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