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.
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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.
Inhalt
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?