# The Land Trap

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- Book: [The Land Trap](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-bird/the-land-trap) ([The Land Trap.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-bird/the-land-trap.md))
- Authors: [Mike Bird](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-bird)
- Publisher: portfolio
- ISBN: 978-05-9371-971-8
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2025-11-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

How the world’s oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economy In The Land Trap, Mike Bird—Wall Street editor at The Economist—reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influence...