All Posts Tagged With: "environment"
Decommissioning California’s Coastal Tyranny
A California Superior Court ruling a year ago was an incredible bombshell that should have had defenders of private property rights rejoicing and California environmentalists gnashing their teeth. Yet the decision, declaring unconstitutional the California Coastal Commission, received surprisingly little media coverage and sparked only muted celebration and outrage at the time. The decision was [...]
19Apr2003 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: In Defense of Global Capitalism, by Johan Norberg
In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg English translation by Roger Tanner. Timbro • 2001 • 291 pages • $11.95 paperback Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux In Defense of Global Capitalism fully accomplishes the goal revealed by its title. Here, Swedish historian and political writer Johan Norberg adeptly explains why free trade and free [...]
17Mar2003 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Dangers of Growing Up Comfortable
Steven Yates, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy, is a writer and consultant living in Columbia, S.C. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994) and numerous articles and reviews. We begin with a short of parable. There lives in a typical American suburb a fellow I [...]
1May2000 | Steven Yates | 2 comments | ContinuedNature’s Entrepreneurs
Terry Anderson is a professor of economics at Montana State University and executive director of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Donald Leal is a senior associate of PERC. This article was adapted from chapter one of their book Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well. Copyright 1998 Rowman & Littlefield. “We have our [...]
1Nov1998 | Terry L. Anderson | 4 comments | ContinuedProsperity Without Pollution
Mr. Semmens is an economist with Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. I recently had the opportunity to participate in a World Future Society “debate” on whether we could reduce pollution without also reducing our economic well-being. Mainstream thinking asserts that we must sacrifice at least some of our prosperity in order to protect the environment. [...]
1Mar1996 | John Semmens | 2 comments | Continued-
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