Free Market Environmentalism

by Terry L. Anderson

Overview

Although there is in the United States a clear national consensus supporting the protection of the environment, advocates often profoundly disagree about the policies best designed to achieve this end. The traditional answer has been that government must intervene, through legislation and regulation of behavior, to preserve environmental values. Th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429719042
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Terry L. Anderson is Executive Director of the Political Economy Research Center (PERC), in Bozeman, Montana and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Donald R. Leal is a Senior Associate at PERC, editor or author of three books, and contributing author to six books that cover various aspects of environmental policy.

Table of Contents

Visions of the Environment -- Rethinking the Way We Think -- From Free Grass to Fences -- From Barbed Wire To Red Tape -- Bureaucracy Versus Environment -- Inside Our Outdoor Policy -- Ecology and Energy -- Going with the Flow -- Homesteading the Oceans -- Marketing Garbage -- Tackling the Tougher Problems

Editorial Reviews

Economists Anderson and Leal revise their 1991 treatise to address some critiques of using markets and property rights to protect and improve environmental quality. They discuss such aspects as rethinking the way we think, bureaucracy versus environment, homesteading the oceans, marketing garbage, from barbed wire to red tape, and purity versus pragmatism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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