David R. Henderson has a nice post up at Antiwar.com , titled "In Defense of Avatar" , in which he takes issue with reviews of Avatar by Reihan Salam and Edward Hudgins . (My earlier comments on Stephan Kinsella`s review of Avatar are here .) I would just note that Henderson has presumed that...
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TokyoTom
on Tue, Jan 12 2010
Filed under: tragedy of commons, property, ostrom, theft, Corporate socialism, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Kinsella
Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's flaw is that he is over confident of his own intelligence...
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on Mon, Oct 15 2007
Filed under: environment, mises, state, property, ostrom, cordato, commons
[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added), followed by a copy...
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on Mon, Oct 15 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, property, ostrom, gore, yandle, Ron Bailey, fisheries
Here's a partial list of useful articles, alphabetically by author: Terry L. Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell Property Rights Solutions for the Global Commons: Bottom-Up or Top-Down? http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?10+Duke+Envtl.+L.+&+Pol'y+F.+73+pdf H. Barnett and Bruce Yandle The End...
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on Tue, Oct 2 2007
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[My very first post on this LvMI-hosted blog. Also, I see this was my first "Avatar"-related piece.] Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/daily/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to...
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on Thu, Sep 27 2007
Filed under: tragedy of commons, environment, Malthus, mises, property, markets, ostrom, yandle, fisheries