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On ocean drilling, it's time for Ron Bailey, oil flack (and other libertarians), to meet Ron Bailey, "tragedy of the commons" guru and to stand up for the Oil Serfs by TokyoTom

Yes, another BP post ! I was a bit critical in my last post of Ron Bailey's suggestion that a gross "cost-benefit" analysis was a sufficient basis for supporting risky ocean drilling activities, without regard to the institutional structure (a government-managed commons) and incentives...

Oil-Serfs-R-Us or the Tragedy of the Government-Owned Commons: the puny Lousianna "Shrimp King" humbled by BP & the Feds by TokyoTom

Yes, another BP post ! The Guardian ran a story last weeks that illustrated some of the human costs of BP's oil debacle. Lew Rockwell and Stephan Kinsella insist that the legal fiction known as "BP" is the largest "victim", but I find their moral clarity rather obtuse, if not...

A handy list of TT posts on BP, the Tragedy of the Government-Owned Commons, Corporations and Oil Serfdom by TokyoTom

For a preceding post, I put together an index to my posts to date, and thought it might be useful to bump it up to a more neasily accessible stand-alone post. In case anyone has missed it, I've done quite a bit of posting on the BP problem , in a manner intended to be fruitful (and not simply a noodge...

As Callahan and Richman laud consumer/moral pressure on polluters, others tell us a BP boycott is stupid by TokyoTom

Another BP post ! I noted in a post yesterday that Sheldon Richman has recently suggested that the best, nonstatist way to deal with climate change is " through a voluntary social movement that promoted an ethic [of] encouraging and pressuring people and firms to cease their destructive activities...