http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/21/mark-pennington-green-leviathan-or-the-minimal-state/ Climate Change News & Analysis Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/21/mark-pennington-green-leviathan-or-the-minimal-state/comment-page-1/#comment-66068 Carbon Credit Project | Reduce Co2 Emissions Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:18:32 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11448#comment-66068 [...] Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Pennington’s Robust Political Economy showed why it might not be a good idea to trust government with environmental protection. Pennington argued that government has no strong incentive to actually protect the environment, and even if they did, they wouldn’t know the best ways to balance environmental protection with other priorities. Canadian think-tank Environment Probe’s Elizabeth Brubaker’s Property Rights in the Defence of Nature gives many examples of how property rights rather than legislation were used to prevent pollution. [...] [...] Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Pennington’s Robust Political Economy showed why it might not be a good idea to trust government with environmental protection. Pennington argued that government has no strong incentive to actually protect the environment, and even if they did, they wouldn’t know the best ways to balance environmental protection with other priorities. Canadian think-tank Environment Probe’s Elizabeth Brubaker’s Property Rights in the Defence of Nature gives many examples of how property rights rather than legislation were used to prevent pollution. [...]

]]> http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/21/mark-pennington-green-leviathan-or-the-minimal-state/comment-page-1/#comment-66062 Elizabeth Brubaker: Property Rights, Not Legislation, Defend Citizens Against Pollution Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:40:51 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11448#comment-66062 [...] Not Legislation, Defend Citizens Against Pollutionby David Bier on November 22, 2011in Blog Tweet Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Pennington’s Robust Political Economy showed why it might not be a good idea to [...] [...] Not Legislation, Defend Citizens Against Pollutionby David Bier on November 22, 2011in Blog Tweet Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Pennington’s Robust Political Economy showed why it might not be a good idea to [...]

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