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Case in point is Kate Sheppard , reporter on energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones ' Washington bureau (previously political reporter for Grist.org and a writing fellow at The American Prospect ), who has an interesting but shallow piece up called " Most Credible Climate Skeptic...
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"Whhhaaat the heck is TT up NOW?" I can hear some of you asking yourselves. Bill Gates , Roger Pielke , the movie Avatar and climate? Just what elusive illusions am I alluding to here? (Stop playing, you say.) Well, brace yourself, and bear with me. Roger Pielke, Jr . has a post up regarding...
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David R. Henderson has a nice post up at Antiwar.com , titled "In Defense of Avatar" , in which he takes issue with reviews of Avatar by Reihan Salam and Edward Hudgins . (My earlier comments on Stephan Kinsella`s review of Avatar are here .) I would just note that Henderson has presumed that...
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I copy here some thoughts I posted on two linked threads by Jeffrey Tucker and Stephan Kinsella in November regarding problems with intellectual property , as well as some relevant parts of the comment thread by Stephan and others: My own view has come around to the idea that state-created IP is abusive...
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On December 16, Spiegel Online ran the following interview with Elinor Ostrom , whose 2009 Nobel prize in economics (shared with Oliver Williamson ), was widely applauded by Austrian economists (and whose work I have referred to any number of time previously ). Der Spiegel asked some good questions,...
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[Post note: Anybody see the movie Avatar? Well that's how native people perceive conservation efforts - as helping governing elites to steal their lands.] The Mother Jones magazine has been running a series of on-line articles which exemplify how some progressives are exploring the ways in which...
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[I note that this is one of my earlier Avatar-themed posts. 2010/02/15] I`ve often referred to Bruce Yandle , a "free-market environmentalist" who is dean emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University`s College of Business & Behavior Sciences, Distinguished...
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I note first that I am reminded by a pithy comment from someone else that, despite the length of my previous post addressing John Quiggin `s post on libertarian delusion , sometimes less is more. Writes commenter "ABOM", in a comment made elsewhere and linked back in to Quiggin`s thread (done...
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John Quiggin , a left-leaning Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland, has noted my recent post on the penchant for bloggers and readers at the Mises Blog to attack climate science - are " almost universally committed to delusional views on climate science ", as he...
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I excerpt below, in chronological order, portions of my prior posts here that refer to Elinor Ostrom (the political scientist who recently was awarded the Nobel prize in economics) and are indebted to her thinking. Perhaps items 3 and 10 are most accessible for readers in a hurry to find links to her...
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... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate an “adaptation fund” that would help...
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Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's flaw is that he is over confident of his own intelligence...
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[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added), followed by a copy...
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How exactly do you transfer commons into private ownership in a fair way, even for easily divided up stuff like land? That's the trillion dollar question that someone asked me on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ) regarding my suggestion that better definition...
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[My very first post on this LvMI-hosted blog. Also, I see this was my first "Avatar"-related piece.] Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/daily/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to...