The Free Market 28, no. 1 (January 2010) Climate-change policy ought to be privatized. All government policy instruments, including taxes, of climate science itself. It would achieve this worthwhile goal by intensifying competition among scientific hypotheses concerning climate change, so that falsified
in order to arrive at a rational judgment of its nature. Destructionist government policy has increasingly restricted the supply of electric power in California and few or no new coal, oil, or hydroelectric power plants built. Indeed, government policies have caused existing plants of these types to be dismantled. In California, to operate, and would quickly be plunged into unprofitability if exposed to the competition of other types of power plants. Moreover, the government-caused
And it’s on its way out because of another problem with government environmental policy: an exaggerated, over- broad response to a possibly nonexistent risk, aimed at the reason we want to get rid of it show us the very real hazards of government policies that try to do too much with heavy-handed commands and bans rather than Brian Doherty is the Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Doherty, Brian. “Regulation Begets Regulation.”
FURTHER READING: “Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, and Pointless Policy,” by Robert C. Balling, Jr. in The True State of the Planet (Washington, D.C.: Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Free Press, 1995), pp. 83-108; Patrick J.
of fatal auto accidents are said to be attributable to cell phone use. But to the policy elite, it is not enough to note that tragedies occur, that they be dealt with . Further Reading: J. Robert Latham, Jr., “ Cell Phone Use While Driving “; The Competitive Enterprise Institute’ s Death by Regulation Project . Terrell,
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