Free Enterprise Environmentalism

by Walter E. Block Loyola University New Orleans, Daniel Coffey (Contribution by), Dreda Culpepper (Contribution by), Patrick English (Contribution by), Jacob Huebert (Contribution by)

Overview

In Free Enterprise Environmentalism, Walter E. Block argues that laissez-faire capitalism can address climate change more effectively than socialism and government regulation. Block advocates for the role of markets, free enterprise, limited government, and private property rights in service of environmental protections. Covering topics such as extinction, overpopulation, pollution, and resources exhaustion, this volume offers alternate solutions to environmental degradation than have been proposed by the political left.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498586863
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	10/18/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	614 KB

About the Author

Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar endowed chair and professor of economics in the College of Business at Loyola University New Orleans.

Table of Contents

Section I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Private Property Rights and Environmentalism

Section II. Water

Chapter 2. Ocean Real Estate

Section III. Energy

Chapter 3. Nuclear Power

Chapter 4. Energy Petition

Chapter 5. Oil and Gas Stations

Section IV. Property Rights

Chapter 6. Homesteading

Chapter 7. Property in Space

Chapter 8. Land for Parks

Section V. Environmental Economics

Chapter 9. ANWR

Chapter 10. Food

Chapter 11. Economics of the Environment

Chapter 12. Pollution

Section VI. Climate; Natural Disasters

Chapter 13. New Orleans’ Future

Chapter 14. Weather Socialism

Chapter 15. Katrina

Chapter 16. Price Gouging

Section VII. Population

Chapter 17. Armageddon?

Chapter 18. Cause of Poverty?

Chapter 19. Problem?

Editorial Reviews

Block demonstrates how the basic institutions of a free society — property rights, markets, and prices — provide the necessary and sufficient building blocks for successful environmental preservation. And shows that the repeated abject failures of both socialist commons and governmental scientific bureaucratic management are inherently doomed to failure. This is an especially welcome and timely volume given the new Biden administration's plans for a vast expansion of the traditional command-and-control approach to all environmental problems as well as a massive acquisition of well-managed private forestlands, ranchlands, and farmlands.

Robert J. Smith