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Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative is, sadly, just another politician's manifesto, making sweeping statements in support of individual rights in one breath and in the next sacrificing them at the altar of government. He believes in individual property rights, sure: One of the...
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A new maxim of judicious living: Poverty is the best policy. If you get wealth, you will have to support other people; if you do not get wealth, it will be the duty of other people to support you. —William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other It's the new American Dream.
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For the benefit of the curious and/or idle reader, I`m cross-posting from my little-used personal blog a short post on the above topic and the ensuing conversation . (I note that my inaugural post at this LvMI-hosted blog covered a related topic: " Too Many or Too Few People? Does the market provide...
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Searching for solutions to problems is admirable, but the effectiveness of such efforts will be limited if they are based on a faulty or incomplete understanding of the problem. Many of those who have some familiarity with the "tragedy of the commons" paradgim outlined by Garret Hardin can...
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Further to my prior posts , here are my more recent comments over at the remarkable RealClimate thread started by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt , to specifically discuss the "tragedy of the commons" paradigm in the context of domestic and international wrngling over climate policy: 544: TokyoTom...
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[some snark in the title, reflecting the heat of the fight over the wheel of government ] Further to my prior posts , here is the full list of my comments over at the remarkable RealClimate thread started by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt , to specifically discuss the "tragedy of the commons"...
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In addressing in a recent post Rob Bradley `s claim to have a "high" level of readers, I was reminded that one of his best and most frequent commenters was a budding conservative, war-supporting "libertarian" who actually, in the past month that I`ve been banned from the blog, has...
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Filed under: mises, cordato, property rights, Block, Kuznets, coase, rothbard, Bradley, Terry Anderson, Bailey, Tierney
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Readers from RealClimate , thanks for your visit. Here`s my comment with embedded links: #188 / 245: Neal & Jim, thanks for the references to the successful experiments in Iceland, NZ and the Alaskan pollock fishery to replace the tragedy of the government commons with property rights approaches...
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Apparently Rob Bradley `s self-proclaimed "free-market" energy blog, "MasterResource", has experienced a recent increased flow of traffic, so Rob is busy patting himself on the back and spinning his blog to his new readers . But what`s the reason for the increased traffic? Is MasterResource...
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Here , in the belly of the Beast - the " RealClimate" blog by climate scientists. Anybody wanna chip in? So far, comments by yours truly are as follows: 134. TokyoTom Says: 8 May 2009 at 11:56 AM Gavin, thanks for a thoughtful post that I hope will be brought to the attention of every so-called...
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[ Update below] George Will has gifted us with a thoroughly confused op-ed in the Sunday WaPo . Will predictibly trots out the 1980 bet that Paul Ehrlich lost to Julian Simon over the prices of minerals and commodities - but fails to note that the reason that Simon won that bet was that people own land...
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In a recent post , Andy Revkin , a New York Times reporter who blogs on energy and environmental issues at his "Dot Earth" blog, asks "When whale species, like the minke, are no longer rare, can they be both admired and eaten — as North Americans do with bison — or is it simply...
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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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So here's the idea: there are at least three different ways that libertarians generally think of coercive force, and I think they've been harmed by treating them as if they were essentially the same sort of thing. The first kind of coercive "force" is the use of someone else's property...
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I was reading Roderick Long's article, " Land-Locked: A Critique of Carson on Property Rights ," and came across an argument that left me somewhat skeptical. I've recently become convinced that appropriation needs to be justified on the grounds of being a desirable "game,"...