……按购买力平价计算的人均 GDP 美国比英国高 39%，然而按每平方英尺计算，英国的房价几乎是美国的一倍（！）。我原本还以为美国的房价就已经够离谱了！有一本好书叫《Who Owns Britain》，书中指出英国仅仅 6000 名土地所有者（主要是唐顿庄园那种公爵、伯爵和男爵，还有大机构和王室）就拥有英国超过一半的土地。这种严重的集中……
…capita at PPP is 39% more in the US than the UK, yet UK housing prices are nearly twice (!) as much as the US on a per-square-foot basis. And I thought US housing prices were nuts! There is a good book, "Who Owns Britain", that points out that just 6000 landowners (mainly the Dukes, Earls and Barons a la Downton Abbey, but also large institutions and the Crown) own over half the land in Britain. That gross concentration…
有一本书叫 Kevin Cahill 写的《Who Owns the World?》。我没读过（我读过他早先写的《Who Owns Britain?》），不过前阵子我确实在收音机里听他聊过这本书，他说全世界他唯一发现能让你真正拥有自己土地的地方，就是美国。女王在技术层面上……
There's a book called Who Owns the World? by Kevin Cahill. I haven't read it (I read his earlier Who Owns Britain?) though I did hear him talking about it on the radio a while back, and he said that the only place in the world he'd found where you really could own your own land, was America. The Queen, technically,…
This otherwise very fine article misses one simple explanation, esp wrt France vs UK: The majority of the UK is owned by very few people. Cite: "Who Owns Britain" by Brian Cahill. This ownership has not been transparent. Nor do they pay their share of taxes; rather they receive an outside amount of subsidies. The first step to fixing UK's vetocracy by fixing…
……按购买力平价计算的人均 GDP 美国比英国高 39%，然而按每平方英尺计算，英国的房价几乎是美国的一倍（！）。我原本还以为美国的房价就已经够离谱了！有一本好书叫《Who Owns Britain》，书中指出英国仅仅 6000 名土地所有者（主要是唐顿庄园那种公爵、伯爵和男爵，还有大机构和王室）就拥有英国超过一半的土地。这种严重的集中……
…capita at PPP is 39% more in the US than the UK, yet UK housing prices are nearly twice (!) as much as the US on a per-square-foot basis. And I thought US housing prices were nuts! There is a good book, "Who Owns Britain", that points out that just 6000 landowners (mainly the Dukes, Earls and Barons a la Downton Abbey, but also large institutions and the Crown) own over half the land in Britain. That gross concentration…
有一本书叫 Kevin Cahill 写的《Who Owns the World?》。我没读过（我读过他早先写的《Who Owns Britain?》），不过前阵子我确实在收音机里听他聊过这本书，他说全世界他唯一发现能让你真正拥有自己土地的地方，就是美国。女王在技术层面上……
There's a book called Who Owns the World? by Kevin Cahill. I haven't read it (I read his earlier Who Owns Britain?) though I did hear him talking about it on the radio a while back, and he said that the only place in the world he'd found where you really could own your own land, was America. The Queen, technically,…
这篇原本非常棒的文章漏掉了一个简单的解释，特别是在英法对比方面：英国绝大部分土地属于极少数人。出处：Brian Cahill 的《Who Owns Britain》。这种所有权一直很不透明。而且他们也没交该交的税；反倒拿了巨额补贴。解决英国否决政治的第一步就是解决……
This otherwise very fine article misses one simple explanation, esp wrt France vs UK: The majority of the UK is owned by very few people. Cite: "Who Owns Britain" by Brian Cahill. This ownership has not been transparent. Nor do they pay their share of taxes; rather they receive an outside amount of subsidies. The first step to fixing UK's vetocracy by fixing…