Suggests free market ideas as solutions to environmental problems. Property rights solutions that encourage market processes are proposed for public land management, outdoor recreation, water quantity and quality and ocean fisheries. Also discussed are the problems of global warming and acid rain.

Free Market Environmentalism

Business & Money

Terry L. Anderson

Donald R. Leal

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well

Donald Leal

Rowman Littlefield

Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Johns Hopkins University Press

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation rather than conflict. Rather than describing the frontier as a place where heroes met villains, this book argues that everyday people helped carve out legal institutions that tamed the West. The authors emphasize that ownership of resources evolves as those resources become more valuable or as establishing property rights becomes less costly. Rules evolving at the local level will be more effective because local people have a greater stake in the outcome. This theory is brought to life in the colorful history of Indians, fur trappers, buffalo hunters, cattle drovers, homesteaders, and miners. The book concludes with a chapter that takes lessons from the American frontier and applies them to our modern "frontiers"―the environment, developing countries, and space exploration.

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier (Stanford Economics & Finance)

Peter J. Hill

Stanford Economics and Finance

Drawing 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.

Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Laura E. Huggins

Hoover Institution Press

Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment (Pacific Institute Studies in Public Policy)

Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research

Tapping Water Markets

Brandon Scarborough

Lawrence R. Watson

Routledge

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