All Posts Tagged With: "natural resources"
The Fine Art of Conservation
Bernie Jackson is an electrical engineer and freelance writer from California. Imagine being a fly on the wall in an upscale auction house. You witness a parade of unique, priceless merchandise—items whose value cannot be explained by material usefulness alone. Their value arises from some combination of aesthetics, historical importance, pride of ownership, and a [...]
1Oct1998 | Bernie Jackson | 0 comments | ContinuedSustainable Development: Common Sense or Nonsense on Stilts?
Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine. The mantra of “sustainable development” is constantly on the lips of the international agencies and nongovernmental organizations helping lesser-developed countries. The concept seems innocuous enough; after all, who would favor “unsustainable development”? But the fundamental premise of [...]
1Sep1998 | Jerry Taylor | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Taiwan Model
Hugh Macaulay was Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University. He was a visiting professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei from August 1984 to July 1985. People at all times in the past and everywhere on earth today have wanted to enjoy economic growth and prosperity, as well as political and personal freedom. Unfortunately, [...]
1Jul1998 | Hugh Macaulay | 0 comments | ContinuedReflections on a Failure
Mr. Smith is a freelance writer residing in Santa Maria, California. The waning days of the twentieth century will undoubtedly bring a spate of books and articles on the people and events that shaped the era. Certainly the two world wars will be high on the list for examination, along with radio and television, air [...]
1Oct1997 | Donald G. Smith | 0 comments | ContinuedAn Environment Without Property Rights
When Eastern Europe began to open up in the late 1980s, one of the great shocks was the severity of its environmental problems. Journalists reported on skies full of smoke from lignite and soft coal, children kept inside for much of the winter because of unsafe air, and horses that had to be moved away [...]
1Feb1997 | Richard L. Stroup | 2 comments | ContinuedThe State of Humanity
Dr. Block is a professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross. If you are one of those persons whose intellectual style can be summarized by the motto. “Don’t confuse me with the facts,” then you won’t like this book one bit. On the other hand, if you think that facts, evidence, and [...]
1Oct1996 | Walter Block | 1 comment | ContinuedOn Keynes as a Practical Economist
Dr. Simon is the author of The State of Humanity and The Ultimate Resource. John Maynard Keynes’s contemporaries thought that he was the cleverest mortal of the century (putting aside such immortals of physical science as Einstein). Bertrand Russell said of Keynes’s intellect that it was “the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known. [...]
1Aug1996 | Julian L. Simon | 0 comments | ContinuedWar on the West: Government Tyranny on America’s Great Frontier
Ms. Shaw is senior associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. If the federal government has declared war on the West, as William Perry Pendley contends, we had better pay attention, since the federal government owns so much of it. As Pendley points out, Washington, D.C., manages more than 80 percent of Nevada, [...]
1Jun1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedA Vote for Optimism
As the twentieth century draws to a close and a new millennium begins, should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the course of the human race? Expect pundits and prognosticators of every persuasion to be offering up their views on this weighty question between now and the year 2000. Count me among the optimists. Not [...]
1Apr1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Greening of the Cross
Professor Beisner is on the faculty at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia and is the author of Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1990). He has done research into global environmental trends for over eight years. Lately thousands of people across America, including me, have received [...]
1Jul1995 | E. Calvin Beisner | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mushroom Wars
Drive-by shootings, an abandoned car riddled with bullet holes, a man gunned down before he can pull his .45 caliber pistol. No, it is not gang warfare in an American inner city. These are the mushroom wars in the once peaceful forests of the Northwest. Not so long ago mushroom picking was a somewhat quaint [...]
1Jun1995 | Richard B. Coffman | 0 comments | ContinuedScarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment
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. At issue was whether present rates of economic development, population growth, and [...]
1Apr1995 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Governments Can’t Handle Risk
Professor Simmons is the Head of the Political Science Department of Utah State University. Public opinion surveys indicate that mainstream America is worried about environmental risks.[1] In 1990, for the first time since pollsters began asking the questions, a plurality (46 percent) of American voters believed that the quality of life where they live was [...]
1Mar1995 | Randy T. Simmons | 0 comments | Continued-
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