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  • Tragedy of the panicked enviro IV: not capitalism, but intensive use of unowned resources is the problem

    This is my third 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. cyberfarer Posted 9:26 pm 27 Aug 2009 ... [addressed to...
    Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009
    Filed under: commons, property rights, climate change, Amazon, Adam Sacks, Grist
  • Save wild fisheries - buy your certified sustainable salmon from Walmart!

    I've blogged before on the "tragedy of the commons"/bureaucratic mismanagement problems that underlie the crashing of the West Coast salmon fisheries and that imperil the giant Atlantic bluefin tuna ; a recent article by Fortune shows that there are glimmers of hope for ocean fisheries...
    Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Dec 9 2008
    Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, fisheries, Salmon, tuna, Walmart
  • Whales and fisheries - "standing up to Japan", or managing/enclosing the commons?

    Dave Neiwert , a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus . http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html . Neiwert sends a mixed message by saying we need...
    Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 15 2008
    Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, Dave Neiwert, fisheries
  • Property rights and fishing

    Over at Cafe Hayek , Don Boudreaux blogs about fishing and property rights. This got me thinking: What is necessary for rational allocation of fishing rights? Clearly, treating the ocean's fish as totally unownable is problematic, as that sort of thing would naturally lead to overfishing. At first...
    Posted to Natural Order by Grant on Tue, Oct 2 2007
    Filed under: Environment, Property Rights, Hayek, Commons