"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" tragedy of commons - TT's Lost in Tokyo

[Update] Some food for thought on who (US/UN/others/Haitians) and what is responsible for making and keeping Haiti poor by TokyoTom

 

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Avatar at Home? Those pesky Somali pirates have hampered the pillage of East African seas, leading to higher fish catches by locals by TokyoTom

As a follow-up to my earlier posts (note: link fixed) on how the rape of East African fisheries ($200-300 million per year) & ocean dumping by Western nations led to the rise of Somali piracy, I just ran across this interesting recent report by AP...

Nice Post by David Henderson on "Avatar", property, corporatism & right of natives to live as they please by TokyoTom

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 ...

Strange But True IV: NOAA proves govt CAN learn - and seeks to end tragedy of commons in fisheries by implementing "catch share" quasi-property rights! by TokyoTom

Fellow libertarians, O Cynical Ones, you might be surprised to note that, at least in some cases, it MAY be possible to educate thick-headed and corrupt government bureaucrats and political appointees about the reasons for policy failures, and the government...

Bruce Yandle on the tragedy of the commons, evolution of cooperation & property, and the struggle against government theft by TokyoTom

 

 

 

 

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Positive sum games: Get yer Elinor Ostrom here! A reprise of posts on rolling up our sleeves to address real problems that "markets" (& govt.) now aggravate by TokyoTom

 

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Elinor Ostrom? Austrians praise the Nobel laureate's work on how human communities successfully manage resource conflicts by TokyoTom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Clear-sighted" panic; the role of the corporation in the tragedy of the commons by TokyoTom

This is my fourth follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. Here...
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A Human-Precipitated Mass-Extinction?; a libertarian discussion of preferences about things unowned by TokyoTom

 

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Searching for common ground: In which I provide a partial defense of Ron Bailey`s "invisible hand of population control" thesis by TokyoTom

 

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To Ron Bailey: yes, an "invisible hand" controls population, but property rights & rule of law are not universal and, as Mises noted, require effort by TokyoTom

 

 

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Capitalism, the destructive exploitation of the Amazon and the tragedy of the government-owned commons by TokyoTom

 

 

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For crashing fisheries, a coalition of mainline US enviro groups calls for .... property rights! by TokyoTom

In a recent post , Andy Revkin , a New York Times reporter who blogs on energy and environmental issues at his "Dot Earth" blog, asks "When whale species, like the minke, are no longer rare, can they be both admired and eaten — as...
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Somali piracy flows from the greater and continuing Western theft and abuse of Somali marine resources by TokyoTom

The January 4 Huffington Post carries a perceptive column by Johann Hari , a writer for the Independent , who explains that Somali piracy (which I have commented on here and here ) has roots in the Western theft and abuse of Somali marine resources -...
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