Anti-Growth Legislation in Hawaii

Foreign investment generally in the United States has increased rapidly in recent years. Total foreign investment in the country has increased approximately 6.6 times since 1971.1 through 1987. Investment declined in the 19731974 time period. This time period coincided with the economic recession following the first crude oil price/supply crisis. There was also a small decline in 1977, which is not readily explainable by macroeconomic events. Although total investment increased in 1981, the increase was insignificant, in comparison to the

1International Monetary Fund, "United States," Inter national Financial Statistics, 42 (July 1989): 422426; International Monetary Fund, "United States," International Finan cial Statistics, 35 (July 1982): 402406; International Monetary Fund, "United States," International Financial Statistics, 28 (July 1975): 392396; R. B. Scholl, "The International Investment Position of the United States in 1985," Survey of Current Business, 66 (June 1986): 2636.

2surrounding years. That year marked the beginning of the major recession in the American economy, a recession which was to last for approximately two years.

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d to an unrestricted application of the highest and best use concept, wherein (1) the supply of rental housing will decline, and (2) the cost of rental housing will increase. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTROL LEGISLATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY Growth and development control legislation would have the effect of artificially distorting the market pricing mechanism with respect to real property. One of the theoretical economic concepts associated with the use of prices is that of economic efficiency, which is a part of welfare economics. Economic efficiency demands that any given output be produced at minimum 8 cost. To produce goods at minimum cost means that both waste and technological inefficiency must be avoided. Prices are used to find the costminimizing production processes. In the allocation of economic resources, economic efficiency demands that it must not be possible to change existing resource allocations in such a way that someone is made better off and no one worse off. Another theoretical concept associated with the use ofprices in a free market economy is equilibrium. A free market economy is said to be in equilibrium when the independently taken decisions of households and firms are
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