Political Environmentalism: Going Behind the Green Curtain
Author: Terry Lee Anderson
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780817997533
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The False Promise of Green Energy
Author: Andrew P. Morriss
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 2011-02-09
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1935308424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe False Promise of Green Energy illustrates the irresponsibility of attempting to transform modern society with borrowed money, wishful thinking, and bad economics. It shows how the top-down control programs offered by green-energy and green-jobs advocates are unlikely to achieve positive results compared with allowing competitive forces to continue to provide ever greater environmental quality and energy efficiencies.
Property Rights
Author: Terry L. Anderson
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 081793913X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the thoughts of various philosophers, political thinkers, economists, and lawyers, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins present a blueprint for the nonexpert-expert on how societies can encourage or discourage freedom and prosperity through their property rights institutions. This Hoover Classic edition of Property Rightsdetails step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.
Oversight of the GSA and Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 382
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Author: David Schoenbrod
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0300128916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake. Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules—those that have done the most good—have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA. With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for “bottom-up” environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home.
Free Market Environmentalism
Author: T. Anderson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-02-02
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0312299737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original edition of this seminal book, published in 1991, introduced the concept of using markets and property rights to protect and improve environmental quality. Since publication, the ideas in this book have been adopted not only by conservative circles but by a wide range of environmental groups. To mention a few examples, Defenders of Wildlife applies the tenets of free market environmentalism to its wolf compensation program; World Wildlife Federation has successfully launched the CAMPFIRE program in southern Africa to reward native villagers who conserve elephants; and the Oregon Water Trust uses water markets to purchase or lease water for salmon and steelhead habitats. This revised edition updates the successful applications of free market environmentalism and adds two new chapters.
Supreme Court Economic Review
Author: Jonathan Klick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 022643818X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Supreme Court Economic Review is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary law and economics series with a particular focus on economic and social science analysis of judicial decision making, institutional analysis of law and legal structures, political economy and public choice issues regarding courts and other decision-makers, and the relationship between legal and political institutions and the institutions of a free society governed by constitutions and the rule of law. Contributors include renowned legal scholars, economists, and policy-makers, and consistently ranks among the most influential journals of law and economics.
Government Vs. Environment
Author: Donald Leal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780742521810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Americans today view the government as the savior of the environment. When it comes to protecting land, fish, and wildlife, the common response is to let government do it. The contributors to Government Versus the Environment encourage us to consider government in a different light by looking at clear instances of public programs that foster environmental destruction. They provide an in-depth look at of how the political process can adversely impact the quality of our environment and argue that the government's track record in managing natural resources has been and continues to be abysmal. The case studies in Government Versus the Environment will cause readers to think twice about the all-too-familiar calls for more government for the sake of the environment.
Singapore in a Post-Kyoto World
Author: Tilak K Doshi
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9814695998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSingapore had, by the 1980s, emerged as one of the world's great oil refining and trading centres, with the "e;East of Suez"e; region within its sphere of influence. The city-state's policy-making went against the grain in much of its practice of economic development. It ensured that energy products were bought and sold in the domestic market at essentially global prices, in contrast to the common practice in developing countries of subsidizing energy fuels for social equity. Without a drop of oil of its own, Singapore also managed to attract large foreign investments in the capital-intensive oil refining and petrochemical manufacturing sectors in an export-oriented strategy. This was at a time when governments of most newly independent countries were busy trying to promote heavy industry by protectionist trade policies and import-substituting industrialization. The purpose of this book is two-fold. It is intended to introduce a host of energy-related discussions relevant to a wider group of readers who do not "e;do energy"e; for a living, yet are keenly interested in understanding the many complexities of modern industrial societies which need to balance economic, environmental, and security priorities of ordinary citizens. It is also meant to serve as an introductory assessment of key energy-related issues, with a particular relevance for small advanced countries such as Singapore.
Crop Chemophobia
Author: Jon Entine
Publisher: Government Institutes
Published: 2011-04-16
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0844743631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Crop Chemophobia, Jon Entine and his coauthors examine the 'precautionary principle' that underlies the EU's decision and explore the ban's potential consequences-including environmental degradation, decreased food safety, impaired disease-control efforts, and a hungrier world.
