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.
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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 Times *
Tables and Figures vii(2) Acknowledgments ix(2) Introduction Property Rights and Externalities: Problems and Solutions xi Peter J. Hill Roger E. Meiners
Chapter 1 Private Property Rights as the Basis for Free Market Environmentalism 1(36) Louis De Alessi
Chapter 2 Property Rights, the Environment, and Economic Well-Being 37(18) Seth W. Norton
Chapter 3 Property Rights as a Natural Order: Reciprocity, Evolutionary and Experimental Considerations 55(32) Vernon L. Smith
Chapter 4 The Common Law and the Environment: The Canadian Experience 87(32) Elizabeth Brubaker
Chapter 5 Coase, Pigou, and Environmental Rights 119(34) Bruce Yandle
Chapter 6 Existence Value and Other of Lifes Ills 153(34) Donald J. Boudreaux Roger E. Meiners
Chapter 7 From Stakeholders to Stockholders: A View from Organizational Theory 187(36) William J. Carney
Chapter 8 Habitat Preservation: A Property Rights Perspective 223(36) Richard A. Epstein
Chapter 9 Viewing Wildlife through Coase-Colored Glasses 259(24) Terry L. Anderson
Chapter 10 Cooperating on the Commons: Case Studies in Community Fisheries 283(32) Donald R. Leal
Chapter 11 The Constitutional Protection of Private Property 315(22) Richard E. Wagner Index 337(12) About the Political Economy Forum and the Contributors 349
Peter J. Hill is professor of economics at Wheaton College, where he holds the George F. Bennett Chair. He is a senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center. He is the coauthor of Eco-Sanity: A Common Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Madison Books) and coeditor of numerous books, including Wildlife in the Marketplace (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) and The Privatization Process (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996). Roger E. Meiners is professor of law and economics at the University of Texas at Arlington and a senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center. He is the coauthor of Gridlock in Government: How to Break the Stagnation of America and Managing in the Legal Environment, and coeditor of many books, including Taking the Environment Seriously (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993).
