All Posts Tagged With: "water policy"
The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical-Liberal Evolution
Fred Smith is president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals or firms, the economic calculation established by them is manifestly defective and their results deceptive. But this is not the outcome of [...]
1Jun2004 | Fred Smith | 3 comments | ContinuedGovernment Versus the Environment
When the subject is the environment, the public perception is that a resource of such importance can only be adequately safeguarded by the benevolent, all-encompassing hands of the government. Whether that protection comes in the guise of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or any of [...]
1Feb1998 | Russell Madden | 18 comments | Continued-
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