"For all too long, "environmentalism" has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the political left. This book, however, makes the case that markets, free enterprise, limited government, private property rights are a far better way of addressing ecological challenges than are our present institutions...

Privatize the oceans and all other bodies of water -- Why privatize anything? -- Why privatize bodies of water? -- Aquatic ownership concepts -- The process of privatization homesteading, abandonment -- Existing law governing the seas -- Oceans: concepts of oceanological ownership -- Rivers:...

Part I. Philosophy -- Chapter 1: Property and Exploitation -- Chapter 2: The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft -- Chapter 3: Ona’ah -- Part II. Libertarian Property Rights Theory -- Chapter 4: Hayek's Road to Serfdom -- Chapter 5: Block vs. Friedman on Hayek -- Chapter 6:...

The authors contend that what can legitimately be owned in a free society is only rights to physical property, not to the value thereof. You are thus free to undermine the value of our property by underselling us, by inventing a new substitute for our property, etc. But you cannot legitimately...