Free Enterprise Environmentalism

Walter E. Block - Contributions by Daniel Coffey; Dreda Culpepper; Patrick English; Jacob Huebert; Jay Johnson; Christie Laporte; John Levendis; Joseph Morrel; Amy Motichek; Lew Rockwell; Andrea Santoriello and Emily Schaeffer

In Free Enterprise Environmentalism, Walter E. Block argues that laissez-faire capitalism can address climate change more effectively than socialism and government regulation. Block advocates for the role of markets, free enterprise, limited government, and private property rights in service of environmental protections. Covering topics such as extinction, overpopulation, pollution, and resources exhaustion, this volume offers alternate solutions to environmental degradation than have been proposed by the political left.

Lexington Books

Pages: 272 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-8685-6 • Hardback • October 2021 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-8686-3 • eBook • October 2021 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism

Free Enterprise Environmentalism

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Summary

In Free Enterprise Environmentalism, Walter E. Block argues that laissez-faire capitalism can address climate change more effectively than socialism and government regulation. Block advocates for the role of markets, free enterprise, limited government, and private property rights in service of environmental protections. Covering topics such as extinction, overpopulation, pollution, and resources exhaustion, this volume offers alternate solutions to environmental degradation than have been proposed by the political left.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 272 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-8685-6 • Hardback • October 2021 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-8686-3 • eBook • October 2021 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism

Author

Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar endowed chair and professor of economics in the College of Business at Loyola University New Orleans.

Table of Contents

Section I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Private Property Rights and Environmentalism
Section II. Water
Chapter 2. Ocean Real Estate
Section III. Energy
Chapter 3. Nuclear Power
Chapter 4. Energy Petition
Chapter 5. Oil and Gas Stations
Section IV. Property Rights
Chapter 6. Homesteading
Chapter 7. Property in Space
Chapter 8. Land for Parks
Section V. Environmental Economics
Chapter 9. ANWR
Chapter 10. Food
Chapter 11. Economics of the Environment
Chapter 12. Pollution
Section VI. Climate; Natural Disasters
Chapter 13. New Orleans’ Future
Chapter 14. Weather Socialism
Chapter 15. Katrina
Chapter 16. Price Gouging
Section VII. Population
Chapter 17. Armageddon?
Chapter 18. Cause of Poverty?
Chapter 19. Problem?

Reviews

Block demonstrates how the basic institutions of a free society -- property rights, markets, and prices -- provide the necessary and sufficient building blocks for successful environmental preservation. And shows that the repeated abject failures of both socialist commons and governmental scientific bureaucratic management are inherently doomed to failure. This is an especially welcome and timely volume given the new Biden administration's plans for a vast expansion of the traditional command-and-control approach to all environmental problems as well as a massive acquisition of well-managed private forestlands, ranchlands, and farmlands.

— Robert J. Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute