What Should Austrian Economists Do? On Dolan on the Austrian Paradigm in Environmental Economics
Some scholarship in the Austrian tradition today opens itself to the charge that it is textual exegesis — what did Mises really mean?
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The Austrian Paradigm in Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice
In the introduction to the proceedings of the South Royalton conference, I suggested that Austrian economics had the potential not just to survive but also to achieve what Thomas Kuhn (1962) calls a scientific revolution. Such a revolution would fundamentally change the way practitioners of a field saw the world as a new paradigm came to replace the dominant one. What can we say of the success of Austrian economics in that regard?
Review of Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close
Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy is an excellent book of easy-reading essays dealing with environmental policy from the perspective of “free-market environmentalism”
Toward an Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics
Austrian economics lacks a formalized, self-conscious theory of environmental economics. But in fact all of the major elements of such a theory already exist and in that sense what
Book Review: Energy: The Master Resource by Robert L. Bradley
Almost nowhere, however, are lay readers presented with a more sober and realistic perspective according to which the institutional framework of market economies has always been conducive to greater resource
Human Action and Socially-Optimal Conservation: A Misesian Inquiry into the Hotelling Principle
The Hotelling Principle defines socially-optimal conservation of an exhaustible resource i a mathematically-defined, equilibrium environment in which no human action can occur.
Review of Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency by Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal
Let us begin our analysis by making the distinction between free markets in their pure, laissez faire or capitalist dimension, on the one hand, and market socialism on the other.
Toward a Calculational Theory and Policy of Intergenerational Sustainability
The economic theory of intergenerational sustainability is essentially neoclassical in nature and purports to provide a prescriptive framework for deciding how current generations
Environmentalism in the Light of Menger and Mises
A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it, if and when it comes.
Review of The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, eds.
Perhaps the best concise summary of this book is given by editor Alexander Tabarrok in his concluding chapter. As he points out, where most urbanists see market failures,
