According to this article: ‘By the 1970s some seers, noting the falling cost and

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According to this article:

‘By the 1970s some seers, noting the falling cost and increasing power of information technology, convinced themselves that the textbooks were anticipating the way of the world: land and location would soon cease to matter in real life, too. Instead, concern over land has come roaring back. The issue is not overall scarcity, but scarcity in specific places—the cities responsible for a disproportionate amount of the world’s output. The high price of land in these places is in part an unavoidable concomitant of success.... Supply chains leap borders and oceans; calls to customer services can be answered a continent away. But if distance has died, location has not.... Top cities became hotbeds of innovative activity against which other places could not easily compete. The people clustered together boosted each others’ employment opportunities and potential income. From Bangalore to Austin, Milan to Paris, land became a scarce and precious resource as a result; the economic potential of a hectare of a rural Kentucky county is dramatically lower than that of a hectare in Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara county. And there is only so much of Santa Clara to go around.... There are ways to address this with policy.... Governments could aim specific assistance at those harmed by dense development.... Or they could heed the advice of Henry George, an American follower of Ricardo who in the 1880s made the case for a land-value tax. It has many theoretical virtues. Most taxes dampen, distort or displace economic activity by changing incentives on the margins. But a land tax cannot reduce the supply of land, and it would stimulate economic activity by penalising those whose land is unproductive....’

Question:

According to the article, what is unique about the demand and/or supply curve for land in the cities? Explain.

Explanation / Answer

According to the article we can say that the lands requirements in some hotspot businesses hubs or financial centres will never come down and the people will pay as high as possible to buy lands in those place. In the terms of economics we can say that the demand curve of the properties in these hotspots are filling a if not perfectly inelastic then very inelastic. That means even if the prices of these properties will rise then also there are people who will buy these properties.

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