While the Associated Press blames the disaster in the Gulf on the lack of regulatory oversight, the White House's call for increasing the liability cap on oil companies belies the real culprit in this mess. Previous legislation capped oil company liability at 75 million. What reason could there possibly...
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Man, Meaning, and Freedom
by
William Green
on Thu, May 13 2010
Filed under: government, libertarianism, litigation, BP, law, oil spill, environment, justice
In the closing pages of Calculation and Coordination , Boettke includes the basic correlations between GDP and a variety of "real" -ly important social variables: sanitation, education, life expectancy, and infant mortality among others. The Read More...
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Austrian Addiction
on Fri, Mar 6 2009
Filed under: energy, maps, environment, gdp
[Snark in title Alert!] http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rudd-yes-to-kyoto-pact/2007/12/03/1196530575996.html
[Snark Alert!] A recent article in Nature Geoscience that shows that measurable climate change - this time the expansion of the tropics - is outpacing predictions. The actual article is abstracted here: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo.2007.38.html Amazing how the strong belief...
More on geo-engineering at the NYT by climate scientist Ken Caldeira: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/opinion/24caldiera.html?th&emc=th I will visit later the question of whether this is something that should be investigated.