"For over a quarter century, the federal government has been the primary determinant of environmental regulation and policy. The contributors to this volume provide a wide variety of strategies to challenge what they consider to be Washington's unsophisticated, ineffective, and harmful approaches. The original essays demonstrate how states can improve environmental regulations as they apply to land, water, wildlife, and pesticides, and t ..."
"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 Enviro ..."
"Daniel K. Benjamin Dan Benjamin is a Professor of Economics at Clemson
University and was a Visiting Scholar at the Political Economy Research Center
in 1993. Author of numerous articles in professional journals, prior to joining the
Clemson faculty in 1985, Benjamin served as Chief of Staff at the U.S.
Department of Labor. ... His most recent book, coauthored with Roger LeRoy
Miller and Douglass C. North, is The Economics of Publi ..."
"Politically portrayed as valiant family farms scratching out a living in the Jeffersonian mode, agriculture is instead the most regulated and subsidized sector of the industrial economy, deeply intertwined in environmental policies. Agricultural Policy and the Environment pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture. The stories ..."
"In the 1990s a grass-roots movement has sprung up among ordinary people to fight regulatory actions taking away their rights to land. In this collection of new essays, twelve distinguished scholars of economics, law, and public affairs address the history and causes of this movement. They document and analyze Supreme Court decisions on regulatory takings, enforcement activities of the Corps of Engineers and EPA, and case studies involvi ..."
"Politically portrayed as valiant family farms scratching out a living in the Jeffersonian mode, agriculture is instead the most regulated and subsidized sector of the industrial economy, deeply intertwined in environmental policies. Agricultural Policy and the Environment pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture. The stories ..."
"After two decades of high-cost, low-output federal efforts to protect and improve environmental quality in the United States, the contributors to this volume argue that it is time to consider market-oriented solutions to environmental problems. Taking the Environment Seriously means learning from past experiences, initiating regulatory approaches that truly protect environmental property, and becoming serious about the business of manag ..."
"For over a quarter century, the federal government has been the primary determinant of environmental regulation and policy. The contributors to this volume provide a wide variety of strategies to challenge what they consider to be Washington's unsophisticated, ineffective, and harmful approaches. The original essays demonstrate how states can improve environmental regulations as they apply to land, water, wildlife, and pesticides, and t ..."
"The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings together an economic understanding of environ ..."
"The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings together an economic understanding of environ ..."
"The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of welldefined 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 Enviro ..."
"... John T. Wenders and Bruce L. Egan , " The Implications of Economic Efficiency for U.S. Telecommunications Policy " Telecommunications Policy 10 ( 1986 ) : 33-40 . 40 . 18. Wenders and Egan , “ The Implications of Economic Efficiency , p ..."
Bootleggers and Baptists(1st Edition) How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam Smith, BruceYandle Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Cato Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-939709-36-3, ISBN: 1-939709-36-9
"Policy analysts, academics, journalists, and even politicians lament the influence of money on politics. But in the political economy, politicians often carefully design regulations so that two very different interest groups will be satisfied. The Bootlegger and Baptist theory, an innovative public choice theory developed more than 30 years ago, holds that for a regulation to emerge and endure, both the “bootleggers,” who seek to obtai ..."
Bootleggers and Baptists How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam Smith, BruceYandle 230 Pages, Published 2014 by Cato Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-939709-37-0, ISBN: 1-939709-37-7
"The Bootlegger/Baptist dynamic accordingly gives new clarity to the recent
outrage in 2011–12, which entailed the “99 ... In Grand Pursuit, Sylvia Nasar's
2011 book on economic thought, the author describes similar turmoil that arose
in the ..."
"Federal and state regulatory agencies are increasingly making use of litigation as a means of regulation. In this book, three experts in regulatory law and theory offer a systematic analysis of the use of litigation to impose substantive regulatory measures, including a public choice-based analysis of why agencies choose to litigate in some circumstances. The book examines three major cases in which litigation was used to achieve regula ..."
"The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform."
"... and Ronald N. ]ohnson. 1986. The Problem of Instream Flows. Economic
Inquiry 24: 555-54. Anderson, Terry L., and Donald R. Leal. 1991. Free Market
Environmentalism. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and
Westview Press. Anderson, Terry L., and Pamela Snyder. 1997. Water Markets.-
Priming the Invisible Pump. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. Bennett, Lynne. L.,
and Robert B. Naeser. 1997. The Arkansas 54 R ..."
Agriculture and the Environment Searching for Greener Pastures (Hoover Institution Press Publication) by Terry L. Anderson, BruceYandle Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2001 by Hoover Institution Press,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-9918-6, ISBN: 0-8179-9918-3