明治初期における東京府日本橋区・京橋区の土地資産分配 : 地租改正と松方デフレの影響

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  • Inequality in land ownership in central Tokyo in the early Meiji period
  • メイジ ショキ ニ オケル トウキョウ フ ニホンバシク ・ キョウバシク ノ トチ シサン ブンパイ : チソ カイセイ ト マツカタ デフレ ノ エイキョウ

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The subject of this paper is to examine the change in the distribution of land ownership in Nihombashi and Kyōbashi Wards (the two wards that form Chūō Ward today), the most commercially developed areas in Tokyo from the early Edo period on. We put much emphasis on the influence of both the land-tax reform of the 1870s and the 'Matsukata Deflation' of the early 1880s on the distribution of land ownership. The unit land price of the ex-daimyō/hatamoto residential area was much lower than that of the ex-townspeople’s residential area in the mid-1870s, but the differential was reduced after the land-tax reform in Tokyo. Estimates from the Theil index suggest that inequality in land ownership, measured using land values, was reduced after this reform. Since a land tax was imposed on the value of land, the reduced inequality in a land’s value was accompanied by a relatively heavy land-tax burden on smaller landowners in the ex-townspeople’s residential area. A sharp fall in the land price, together with increased land transactions, occurred during the Matsukata deflation of the early 1880s. Land ownership came to be more unevenly distributed during this period, because wealthy merchants or landowners acquired more land during the economic contraction.

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  • 経済志林

    経済志林 87 (3･4), 69-110, 2020-03-20

    法政大学経済学部学会

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