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William Anderson (an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute and economics prof. at Frostburg State University) has a thoughtful New Year's Day post , pointing out how Paul Krugman fails to understand the causes of ouir economic stagnation and financial meltdown. I posted the following comment , in...
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Filed under: rent-seeking, enviros, yandle, Block, statism, Krugman, William Anderson, limited liability, Michael Lewis, Meiners
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Stephan Kinsella , in two recent blog posts, Left-Libertarians on Corporations "Expropriating the Efforts of Stakeholders" and Corporations and Limited Liability for Torts , kindly provided a forum to discuss the issue of the limited liability that states grant to shareholders of corporations...
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This time it`s David Veksler , with a post on the main LvMI blog , with the title I`ve quoted above. Why is it that so many Mises commentators flee from reason and prefer a fever-pitched focus on strawmen when it comes to addressing environmental issues? I copy below my comments on the thread [note:...
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Yes, even enviros recognize the importance of clear and enforceable property rights in protecting wlidlife. A new report by TRAFFIC , the wildlife trade monitoring network, and WWF finds that "Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to deliver significant development benfits for the world’s...
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In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters, on a host of "environmental" issues...
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"No, your computer isn't misfiring. Welcome to a new Wall Street Journal blog, Environmental Capital." So says the WSJ's announcement of its new blog, which replaces its Energy Roundup blog and, in addition to continue to track daily energy news, will "go further, analyzing how...
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[snark meter - medium] John Baden , a former logger and oilman, has long been a pillar of the "free-market" environmentalists. He founded and leads the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) and founded and headed the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC...
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[Snark level - medium] [update below] Austrian economist Roy Cordato is playing at collectivism by bringing favorable attention to Ross McKitrick's "T3" carbon tax proposal on Cordato's blog, Environment NC (hosted by the John Locke Foundation , where he is Vice President for Research...
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and for a legally binding UN framework to tackle climate change. Just who are these vile collectivists, red enviros, misanthropes, and others caught up in the totally groundless AGW hysteria? [Snark Alert!] Let's go to FOX News - which headlines "Top Corporations Demand Action on Global Warming"...
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McLinsey released an interesting report on November 30. Details here: http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/ccsi/greenhousegas.asp . The summary of the summary? " Consensus is growing among scientists, policy makers, and business leaders that concerted action will be needed to address rising greenhouse...
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The NYT has an interesting article up on Nature Conservancy's extensive holdings in the Adirondacks: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/nyregion/29adirondacks.html?ei=5087&em=&en=8d6ce0f734fb4852&ex=1193889600&pagewanted=all Nothing like ownership to incentivize environmentalists to...
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[update below] Fundamentalist states on an interesting thread : "Most Americans are outright socialists; the rest are socialist sympathizers. They believe that only the government can save them from capitalists." In response, I raised the following questions: Do you think Jefferson was wrong...