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Weak Property Rights = Pollution?
I'm not usually much on "Top Ten" lists, but this one certainly reiterated for me that the worst pollution is correlated with weak property rights. That industrialized Western nations with strong property rights can't collectively crack the top 30 suggests...
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An Inconvenient Analogy
On April 26-27, the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace organized a seminar on global warming, to better undertsnad the different points of view involved in the debate over climate policies. For nearly the first time in my life, I...
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Accentuating the Negatives: The IPCC Working Group II Summary for Policymakers (SPM)
(Courtesy of Indur Goklany) Although the SPM has some useful and apt things to say about the need for adaptation, it is flawed by the fact that it: -- Overstates negative impacts and understates positive impacts of climate change --...
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Ten Billion Served (and Hundreds of Millions Fleeced)
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) just announced that the U.S. transit industry carried more than 10 billion transit trips in 2006, the first time the industry has exceeded 10 billion trips since 1957. Naturally, APTA -- the transit industry's...
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How Property Rights are Helping Green the Sahel in Niger
courtesy Indur Goklany In an article in today's New York Times titled, "In Niger, Trees and Crops Turn Back the Desert," Lydia Pollgren notes how property rights to trees growing on farmers' land have contributed to both economic growth, agricultural...
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