Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy is an excellent book of easy-reading essays dealing with environmental policy from the perspective of “free-market environmentalism”
In Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and Collapse (2005), Professor Jared Diamond argues that geography and environment are the “ulti
The early conservation movement in the United States was initiated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 when he called together a conference of state gove
The Hotelling Principle defines socially-optimal conservation of an exhaustible resource i a mathematically-defined, equilibrium environment in which no human action can occur.
Let us begin our analysis by making the distinction between free markets in their pure, laissez faire or capitalist dimension, on the one hand, and market socialism on the other.
The economic theory of intergenerational sustainability is essentially neoclassical in nature and purports to provide a prescriptive framework for deciding how current generations
An Interview With Randall G. Holcombe
The following essay attempts to touch on one aspect of modern environmentalism and to examine it against the backdrop of the values associated with
A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it, if and when it comes.
Perhaps the best concise summary of this book is given by editor Alexander Tabarrok in his concluding chapter. As he points out, where most urbanists see market failures,
