All Posts Tagged With: "energy"
How Environmentalism Disdains the Poor
Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and author of Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate (Eerdmans, 1997) The late Julian Simon and other wise thinkers have long understood that economic development is necessary to enable people to afford a safe environment. That [...]
1Aug1998 | E. Calvin Beisner | 1 comment | ContinuedShould There Be a Carbon Subsidy?
The Clinton administration has committed the United States to a massive reduction in the use of energy. That is the implication of its signing the United Nations Global Climate Treaty in Kyoto, Japan. If the Senate approves, we will have to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions drastically CO2 is emitted naturally, of course, by everything [...]
1Jul1998 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedNuclear Power: Our Best Option
Mr. Oliver is a retired engineer living in Carson City, Nevada. Dr. Hospers, this month’s guest editor, is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Southern California, and is the author of numerous books such as Understanding the Arts, Human Conduct, and Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. He was the first Libertarian Party candidate for [...]
1Jan1995 | Mike Oliver | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 4. Tools to Harness Energy
F. A. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. The first two articles in this series dealt with the effect on wages of (1) union membership and (2) productivity. The third dealt with the division of the total product between pay for current effort and pay for the use [...]
1Jun1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | Continued-
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