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Intro -- Contents -- The British Columbia Institute of Economic Policy Analysis -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Who Should Get Natural Resource Revenues? -- The Constitution: A Basis for Bargaining -- The Political Context of Resource Development in Canada -- Equalization Payments and Energy Royalties -- Note on Equalization and Resource Rents -- Natural Resource Revenue Sharing: A Dissenting View -- Resource Rent: How Much and for Whom? -- Static Redistributive and Welfare Effects of an Export Tax -- Taxes, Royalties, and Equity Participation as Alternative Methods of Dividing Resource Revenues: The Syncrude Example -- A Comment on Natural Resource Revenue Sharing: The Links between Revenue Sharing and Energy Policy -- Rent vs. Revenue Maximization as an Objective of Environmental Management -- Ontario Mining Profit Tax: An Evaluation -- Governments and Mineral Resource Earnings: Taxation with Over Simplification? -- Note on Federations and Risk Aversion -- A Note on the Economics of Oil-Financed Recovery Projects -- The Concept of a Nation and Entitlements to Economic Rents -- The Volatility of Rents -- A Comment on Decentralized Resource Control -- Biographical Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.

Individuals' rights to use natural resources have long existed. This title traces the development of these rights and looks at how individuals' rights have evolved. Each chapter focuses on a single natural resource property right, noting the impact of technology, the role of the common law courts, and the role of government.

Debate on the question of who should receive the surplus revenue generated by natural-resource exploitation -- Ottawa or the provinces -- is usually carried on in terms of history, politics custom, law, social values, and environmental considerations. This collection of essays presents analyses of the question from the economist's point of view. The essays fall into three groups. In the first of these, the authors examine the taxation of the mining and energy industries and show how the method of taxation chosen by different levels of government -- federal or provincial -- may be "non-neutral," distorting private output and timing decisions. The second group consists of careful case studies of the effects of particular natural resource taxation measures; the third focuses directly on the question of provincial and federal entitlement to resource revenues. Although arguments are advanced for linking the right to tax to the responsibility for management and control (at present vested in the provinces), most of the contributors would agree that the provinces should be regarded as stewards and bailiffs, not landlords; as rent collectors and managers, not "rentiers" and owners

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