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Pollution as Moral Coercion: Culture, Risk Perception, and Libertarian Values
Wildavsky, Aaron - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 305-333
What is pollution? According to Peter H. Aranson, “Public policy regards as pollution any man-made or naturally … threaten human health or economic welfare Evidently, pollution is a bad and not a good thing. Alas, bad things happen all the … regimes that attempt to guard their members against misfortune. Libertarianism, I take it, is not one of them. So long as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633470
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Can Water Pollution Policy Be Efficient?
Milliman, Jerome W. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 165-204
In 1972 Congress established the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in which the Environmental Protection Agency was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141228
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Pollution Externalities: Social Cost and Strict Liability
Lewin, Peter - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 205-229
This paper critically considers the neoclassical social-cost approach to problems of pollution. This traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010836708
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Pollution Externalities: Social Cost and Strict Liability
Lewin, Peter - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 205-229
This paper critically considers the neoclassical social-cost approach to problems of pollution. This traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633438
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Legal Issues in Pollution-Engendered Torts
Best, Robert K.; Collins, James I. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 101-136
The end ofWorld War II marked the birth of the modern chemical industry. From that time synthetic rubbers, fibers, and complex organohalogens have been produced in large commercial quan- tities, such that each member of modern society is exposed to chemicals of exotic physiocheniical activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633441
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Can Water Pollution Policy Be Efficient?
Milliman, Jerome W. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 165-204
In 1972 Congress established the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in which the Environmental Protection Agency was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633459
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Legal Issues in Pollution-Engendered Torts
Best, Robert K.; Collins, James I. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 101-136
The end ofWorld War II marked the birth of the modern chemical industry. From that time synthetic rubbers, fibers, and complex organohalogens have been produced in large commercial quan- tities, such that each member of modern society is exposed to chemicals of exotic physiocheniical activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661780
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The Principles of Environmental Protection: The Case of Superfund
Epstein, Richard A. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 9-53
regulation? The subject itself poses certain major difficulties for political theories which, whatever their differences, at … insistence upon limited government, especially in the area of economic regulation, has greater intellec- tual and popular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141239
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The Principles of Environmental Protection: The Case of Superfund
Epstein, Richard - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 9-53
regulation? The subject itself poses certain major difficulties for political theories which, whatever their differences, at … insistence upon limited government, especially in the area of economic regulation, has greater intellec- tual and popular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633437
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Competing for the Rental Value of Federal Land: The Assignment of Use Rights and Their Regulation
Libecap, Gary D. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 2, pp. 391-404
Growth of the governmental regulation of economic activities since the depression is normally associated with … industrial produc- tion.’ Indeed, pollution controls, work-safety requirements, and antitrust actions have recently been cited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141230