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...
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TT's Lost in Tokyo
by
TokyoTom
on Fri, Aug 28 2009
Filed under: commons, property rights, climate change, Amazon, Adam Sacks, Grist
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...
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TT's Lost in Tokyo
by
TokyoTom
on Tue, Dec 9 2008
Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, fisheries, Salmon, tuna, Walmart
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...
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TT's Lost in Tokyo
by
TokyoTom
on Fri, Feb 15 2008
Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, Dave Neiwert, fisheries
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...
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Natural Order
by
Grant
on Tue, Oct 2 2007
Filed under: Environment, Property Rights, Hayek, Commons