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Who Owns the Environment?
Author(s): Terry L. Anderson (Author), Donald J. Boudreaux (Author), Elizabeth Brubaker (Author), William J. Carney (Author), Louis De Allessi (Author), Richard A. Epstein (Author), Donald R. Leal (Author), Seth W. Norton (Author), Vernon L. Smith (Author), Richard E. Wagner (Author), Bruce Yandle (Author), Peter J. Hill (Editor), Roger E. Meiners (Editor)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 20 Aug. 1998
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 0847690814
- ISBN-13: 9780847690817
Book Description
The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America’s property rights paradigm. The prominent contributors to Who Owns the Environment? explore numerous theoretical and empirical possibilities for remedying these problems. An important book for environmental economists and those interested in environmental policy.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Who Owns the Environment throws down a challenge to society: if we really want to protect the natural world, we need to be ready to pay for it. . . . accessible to scholars from many backgrounds, including the humanities. Anyone with an interest in property rights and environmental issues would benefit from reading this book. — Leigh Raymond, University of California, Berkeley ― H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
The book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature of environmental reform . . . for the serious analyst, it is an essential addition. — Jonathan H. Adler, Competitive Enterprise Institute ―
The Washington TimesAbout the Author
Donald J. Boudreaux is an American economist, author, professor, and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.? His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Times, and many scholarly publications.
Richard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
