Archive for Jonathan H. Adler
Global Warming: Hot Problem or Hot Air?
Jonathan Adler is director of environmental studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., and the editor of The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), from which portions of this essay are adapted. El Niño is the overhyped weather event of the decade. It has even made CNN’s “Larry King [...]
1Apr1998 | Jonathan H. Adler | 6 comments | ContinuedLand Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion
Richard and Nancy Delene intended to create their own little wildlife reserve in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They purchased over 100 acres of duck ponds and wildlife habitat and sought to improve upon it, making it a more attractive home for indigenous species. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources had other ideas. The Delenes were ordered [...]
1Feb1996 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment by Norman Myers and Julian Simon
W. W. Norton & Company • 1994 • 259 pages • $21.00 On October 14, 1992, students at Columbia University gathered in the Kellogg Conference Center to witness a clash of worldviews. Cornucopian economist Julian Simon and apocalyptic ecologist Norman Myers were staging a debate on the future of human civilization and the natural environment. [...]
1Apr1995 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedMaking the Polluter Pay
Mr. Adler is Associate Director of Environmental Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The experience of the past few decades indicates that “pollution control” is often a pretext by which the federal government regulates the minutiae of each and every industrial process and economic transaction. Much of this so-called pollution control is [...]
1Mar1995 | Jonathan H. Adler | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Bargaining with the State by Richard Epstein
Princeton University Press, 1993 • 322 pages • $35.00 In Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard University Press, 1985), University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein challenged the constitutional legitimacy of nearly every federal government action since 1937. He could scarcely do it again: “Once the New Deal has been declared [...]
1Aug1994 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Taking the Environment Seriously Edited by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle
Rowman & Littlefield, 1993 • 270 pages • $42.50 In 1994, the United States will spend .approximately $150 billion on environmental protection and there will be precious little to show for it. Certainly the staffing at environmental agencies will increase, as will the employment of green lawyers and consultants. Bureaucratic paperwork also will continue to [...]
1Apr1994 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch
Chicago: University of Chicago Press/A Cato Institute Book • 1993 • 178 pages • $17.95 paperback Freedom of speech lies at the heart of classical liberal thought. Without it, classical liberals have always understood, most other freedoms are nearly unprotectable and scarcely meaningful. Yet today, in America as in many ostensibly liberal nations, the freedom [...]
1Mar1994 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Visions Upon the Land: Man and Nature on the Western Range by Karl Hess, Jr.
Washington: Island Press, 1992 • 278 pages • $22.00 Dayton Hyde wanted nothing more than to improve the quality of his land. A ranch owner in southwestern Oregon, Hyde believed that through careful stewardship he could promote wildlife conservation on his lands, as well as the adjacent lands owned by the federal government, while still [...]
1Aug1993 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Marketplace Relies Upon Commercial Free Speech
Jonathan H. Adler is a policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. While flipping through the pages of one’s favorite magazine, one is likely to come across an advertisement for a popular brand of cigarettes—Marlboro, Salem, or perhaps the irrepressible Camel. By law, each of these advertisements must carry a warning to the effect that [...]
1Oct1992 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | Continued-
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