Natural Resource Use/Conservation - Austrian Literature Suggestion

Luiz Mario Brotherhood posted on Thu, Jul 2 2009 11:47 AM

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Hello, LvMI Community!

I am preparing a monograph for the conclusion of my Undergrad Economics course, and I am planning to write about natural resource use and conservation, adopting the Austrian school's approach.

Basically, I would like to show that a free market does not cause resource's irrational degradation and shortage, like most of the people believe.

I would like to ask you for suggestions of texts (articles, books, everything) of Austrian authors that can help me in my research. I appreciate very much your help; it would be an immense one! :)

I believe that I gathered a good quantity of texts, but I still feel that I need more. I'll try to list them here, so you can recommend things that I don't have.

(I got all of them here, at mises.org). I'll write it in smaller format, to save space.

• Can Market Forces Solve Environmental Problems_ Neoclassical vs. Austrian Analytics - Sebastian Storfner
• Conservation, X-Inefficiency and Efficient Use of Natural Resources - E. C. Pastour, Jr.
• Economic Theory of 'Sustainability'_ Its Foundational Errors and an Inquiry into Its Valid Principles - John Brätland
• Environmentalism and Economic Freedom_ The Case for Private Property Rights - Walter Block
• Environmentalism in the Light of Menger and Mises - George Reisman
• Environmentalism Without Government - Tibor R. Machan
• Ethics, Efficiency, Coasian Property Rights, and Psychic Income_ A Reply to Demsetz - Walter Block
• Externalities, Conflict, and Offshore Lands_ Resolution Through the Institutions of Private Property - John Brätland
• Government Land Grab - Christopher Mayer
• Human Action and Socially-Optimal Conservation_ A Misesian Inquiry into the Hotelling Principle - John Brätland
• If You Love Nature, Desocialize It - Manuel Lora
• Land-Use Planning_ Implications of the Economic Calculation Debate - E. C. Pasour, Jr.
• Liberty, Markets, and Environmental Values_ A Hayekian Defense of Free-Market Environmentalism
• On Method and Ethics in Rawlsian Investment Rules Designed to Achieve 'Intergenerational Equity' - John Brätland
• On Societal Ascendance and Collapse_ An Austrian Challenge to Jared Diamond's Explications - John Brätland
• On the Impossibility of 'Just Compensation' When Property is Taken_ An Ethical and Epistemic Inquiry - John Brätland
• Resource Exhaustibility_ A Mythology Refuted in Enterpreneurial Capital Maintenance - John Brätland
• Some Comments on the Rethoric of the Environmental Movement - Ronald Hamowy
• Speculative Imperatives in the Economic Conservation of Petroleum and the Abortive Institutions of Petroleum Exploitation - John Brätland
• The Intergenerational Invisible Hand_ A Comment on Sartoriu's Government Regulation and Intergenerational Justice - Arthur M. Diamind, Jr.
• The Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement - Ronald Hamowy
• Toward a Calculational Theory and Policy of Intergenerational Sustainability - John Brätland
• Toward an Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics - Roy Cordato
• Value and the Environment - Stephen P. Halbrook
• What Are Just Prices_ - Jeffrey A. Tucker
• What Evangelical Environmentalists Do Not Know About Economics - Timothy D. Terrell
• Will Conservation Save Us_ - William L. Anderson

I also believe that Hayek's articles on Knowledge could be helpful (Economics and Knowledge, The Use of Knowledge in Society and The Pretense of Knowledge).

I also found some interesting things in some chapters of Rothbard's books (Egalitarianism... [chapt "Conservation in a Free Market], Power and Market ["Conservation Laws" part] and For a New Liberty [chapt "Conservation, Ecology and Growth"]).

I am planning to read chapter 3 (Natural Resources and the Environment) of "Capitalism", by George Reisman. Is it good? I also ordered Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty" to read chapter 23, "Agriculture and Natural Resources" (indeed, of course, to read the whole book).

Oh. I also ordered Walter Block's "Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation".

Well, I think that's all.

In advance, I thank you very much for your help.