"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" A handy list of TT posts on BP, the Tragedy of the Government-Owned Commons, Corporations and Oil Serfdom - TT's Lost in Tokyo

A handy list of TT posts on BP, the Tragedy of the Government-Owned Commons, Corporations and Oil Serfdom

For a preceding post, I put together an index to my posts to date, and  thought it might be useful to bump it up to a more neasily accessible stand-alone post.

In case anyone has missed it, I've done quite a bit of posting on the BP problem, in a manner intended to be fruitful (and not simply a noodge). Here are my posts, in chronological order:

Risk-shifting, BP and those nasty enviros (a response to Lew Rockwell)

Poor statists! If we close our eyes tightly enough, we can see clearly that Corporations are innocent VICTIMS, of governments that foist on them meaningless grants like limited liability & IP, and of malevolent, grasping citizens

Sheldon Richman doesn't feel sorry for BP, either

Corporations uber Alles: Conveniently inconsistent on "abstractions" like "the environment", Austrians overlook their preference for "corporations" over individuals,& their lack of interest in problem-solving

Persons-R-Us? Here's someone's interesting thought experiment: "What If BP Were A Human Being?"

Does it make any sense to treat corporations as "persons", given the differences in incentives structures?

As BP's oil spills into one of those inconvenient "ecosystems", now even Reason TV rants about "dying oceans"

Time-out for some light humor on BP's "ecosystem": The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute!

Who's at the short end of the stick when Government "Play[s] Fast and Loose with Civilization" in the Gulf of Mexico?

Ed Dolan on Other People's Money: Government, Oil Spills, Financial Crises & Limited Liability

Scott Sumner misses government role in "sh*t happens"; epitomizes discussions of BP/offshore oil development

Kevin Carson says, "In a Truly Free Market, BP Would Be Toast"

More useful discussion by Carson, both on BP’s fate in a free market, and on the inept, feckless and captured regulatory state

Matt Yglesias, like many Austrians, misses the role of government in "Agency Problems and Corporate Misconduct"

A BP Reader: statist corporations, "the environment" and the Tragedy of the Government-Owned/-Managed Commons

Sheldon Richman joins Gene Callahan in naively arguing that, IF man's activities are responsible for climate change, we need not government but simply louder and more obnoxious enviros

As Callahan and Richman laud consumer/moral pressure on polluters, others tell us a BP boycott is stupid

Rand Paul: a caricature of libertarian views on energy

BP: Unless we are to get lost in legal fictions, like Harry Shearer we must look beyond the shareholder curtain

Such a big crisis, yet so few words? Scratching my head over sporadic, thin drive-by postings at LvMI on our growing BP/Gulf disaster

Oil-Serfs-R-Us or the Tragedy of the Government-Owned Commons: the puny Lousianna "Shrimp King" humbled by BP & the Feds

"Economic insight and analysis"? Statist voicepiece WSJ headlines Broken Window Fallacy nonsense: Oil Spill May End Up Lifting GDP Slightly!

Sad: in a numbskull post, "libertarian" Ron Bailey touts cost-benefit analysis as justification for offshore oil drilling, ignores issues of who benefits, who loses & who decides

On ocean drilling, it's time for Ron Bailey, oil flack (and other libertarians), to meet Ron Bailey, "tragedy of the commons" guru and to stand up for the Oil Serfs

The Eve of Destruction: Excellent post on how Government and statist corporations like BP are stifling community responses to the unfolding Gulf disaster

Disturbing news/views on the manageability of the BP gusher

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 3:43 PM by TokyoTom