[ Update below] George Will has gifted us with a thoroughly confused op-ed in the Sunday WaPo . Will predictibly trots out the 1980 bet that Paul Ehrlich lost to Julian Simon over the prices of minerals and commodities - but fails to note that the reason that Simon won that bet was that people own land...
[Updated, as noted] [I now view this as my first "Avatar" post. February 15, 2010.] My attention was drawn today to a letter to the editor published by The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) , an organization of free-thinkers who pioneered what is now known as " free market...
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Filed under: markets, Indians, Bison, PERC, tragedy of the commons, property rights, P.J. Hill, theft, Jared Diamond, Avatar