[Update below] My last piece (on Bret Stephen 's straight-faced but ridiculous dismissal in the WSJ of all concerns about climate change as a "sick-souled religion" and a "nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God") brought the...
Yingling Liu , manager of the China Program at the Worldwatch Institute , has praised recent steps by Chinese water authorities to clarify rights to water and to encourage water trading as a means to resolve serious issues over the use of water. Here are a few key excerpts for the article ("Water...
[Updated, as noted] My attention was drawn today to a letter to the editor published by The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) , an organization of free-thinkers who pioneered what is now known as " free market environmentalism " and is the nation's oldest and largest institute...
It is a cliche to compare political collectivism to insect behavior or a "hive mentality." The imagery is efficively simple; that people are nothing but expendable indentityless drones slaving away for the lazy Queen. But the analogy is amazingly shallow, since insect swarms are entirely devoid...
Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/story/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to Dan. I take the liberty of posting that response here, revised slightly and with a few further comments. Too many...