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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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[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that there is an "objective moral order" in...
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[Update: Bob Murphy sends in an email comment, copied (in relevant part) at the bottom of this post.] I`ve addressed here on five different threads the question of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post . I`ve commented here mainly because...
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A recent post on the Mises Daily pages on the " Religious Roots of Liberty " by the late Congregationalist minister Rev. Edmund Optiz (1914-2006) (originially published in The Freeman, February 1955 ) provides an opportunity to restate and discuss some of the thoughts I`ve been working though...
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Jerry Taylor of Cato is one careful observer of the carbon follies who sees the handwriting on the wall for some type of carbon pricing system coming from the Congress during the Obama Administration. Strikingly, in an interesting post up at MasterResource (a new self-styled "free market" energy...
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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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John P. Holdren , an MIT and Stanford -trained nuclear physicist who is professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of Harvard's Woods Hole Research Center , former President and Chairman of the American Association for the...
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The latest Business W eek magazine sports the headline, "Is Water the New Oil?" and a caricature of T. Boone Pickens . The cover story -" There Will Be Water: T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100 million that he's right " - describes Pickens'...
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Dedicated libertarian law professor Jonathan Adler and longtime libertarian policy analyst Indur Goklany discuss the above issue at in a Roundtable entitled " Climate Change and Property Rights " hosted by Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation and made available online last week. [Update:...
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Bruce Yandle , Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University and Senior Fellow at PERC (the "free market" environmentalism think tank founded by John Baden and now headed by Terry Anderson ), has an article in PERC`s latest monthly report, in which he offers his thoughts on climate...
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The Library of Economics and Liberty has just posted a new hour+ podcast featuring Bruce Yandle. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/10/yandle_on_the_t.html " Bruce Yandle of Clemson University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center looks at the tragedy of the commons and the various...
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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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[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...