All Posts Tagged With: "Audubon Society"

Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy

Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera

1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued

Getting the Most Out of Pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to reduce pollution with command and control suffers from the same problem as attempting to direct the economy with socialism—central authorities dictate outcomes without knowing what the outcomes should be or how they are best achieved.

1Oct2001 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | Continued

Private Property and Opportunity Costs

In three previous columns I discussed opportunity cost and the importance of this concept to understanding economics. We have considered the advantage the market has over government at incorporating opportunity costs into the calculus of decision-makers. Markets promote the general interest by revealing costs while governments commonly favor special interest by concealing those costs. In [...]

1Jun1999 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | Continued

Externalities and the Environment

Ms. Santoriello is a student, and Dr. Block a professor of economics, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. We operate under a free enterprise economic system that produces plastic milk jugs and redwood picnic tables. The market is therefore responsible for such environmental problems as too much plastic trash and too [...]

1Nov1996 | Andrea Santoriello | 1 comment | Continued

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