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Re: Hermann Goering on Anthropogenic Global Warming

On the other hand I wonder why some people are obsessed with trying to come up with 'libertarian' solutions for non-problems, instead of, say, coming up with ideas to drastically limit, or abolish government. Juan, the focus of Austrian economics with relation to environmental conflict is a problem...

Posted to Political Theory by TokyoTom on Wed, Apr 23 2008

Sophomoric optimism?

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...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Oct 15 2007
Filed under: environment, mises, state, property, ostrom, cordato, commons

Cordato summarizes Austrian environmentalism

Roy Cordato has cogently summarized his views and the work of his Austrian colleagues here: http://mises.org/story/1760 . Thoughts on what this framework implies for modern issues are welcome. Below are some favorite excerpts, with emphasis added: "Austrian economics lacks a formalized, self-conscious...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Oct 11 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, catallaxy, cordato

Environmental Markets? Links to Austrians

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...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Oct 2 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, property, Austrians, cordato