Environmental and Resource Economics
In Environmental and Resource Economics, Walter Block, Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, shows how the free market can solve environmental problems. Current environmental problems he says are not caused by market failure, but by government failure in not allowing private property to operate in a free market.
Professor Block analyses many environmental issues beginning with air and noise pollution, hazardous waste (at the 21 minute mark), forests (at 36 minutes), species extinction (41 minutes), oil spills (50 minutes), global warming (53 minutes), environmental racism (58 minutes), and overpopulation (at the 1 hour mark).
In discussing air pollution, Walter Block recommends Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution by Murray Rothbard.
The 65 minute audio lecture (mp3 file, 15 megabytes), was part of Mises University 2004, a program of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Professor Block presented a similar 1 hour, 35 minute audio lecture (mp3 file, 22 megabytes) Environmentalism as part of the Steven Berger Seminar, Radical Austrianism, Radical Libertarianism.
© Danny Haynes
ron manners, 7 June 2007, 17:17:
Danny
your contact came via Ron Kitching and Benjamin Marks
after glacing at my website,pls email me so we can swap contacts
I am currently writing the history of Australias Libertarian movement
rgds
Ron