Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne Gunter concerning the relatively high snowfalls...
In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan, ad hominem attacks over Austrian principles, rational...
I would like to bring readers' attention to Edwin G. Dolan's "Science, Public Policy and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position" , from the Fall 2006 issue of The Cato Journal: www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n3/cj26n3-3.pdf . Dolan examines libertarian, "market liberal"...
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...