Category:Environment
Most benefits of eating local are wildly exaggerated, and this is why
September 7, 2017 | Post
The locavore movement, like many parts of environmentalism, has an unfortunate tendency to dress itself in the clothing of science before lapsing into mysticism.
How capitalists can create value by reducing waste
July 31, 2017 | Post
To see the sharing economy as merely “cheaper taxis and cheaper hotels” is to miss the point entirely.
This company helps African farmers secure their land rights.
June 29, 2017 | Post
A for-profit company is helping rural Africans earn money from their land by securing their property rights.
African animals need to be owned to survive
June 1, 2017 | Post
Most wildlife in Africa is the property of the state. But in one country, people have found a market-based solution that seems to work.
Blame outdated rights for California's water woes.
April 22, 2017 | Post
California is running on the equivalent of a Windows operating system (OS) that’s backwards compatible with earlier versions of the OS — and thus just as confusing, complicated, and conservative as you would expect from a system dating back decades.
Climate change is not a tragedy of the commons
April 22, 2017 | Post
Because no one can tell a plausible story about market exchange or transaction costs with future generations, no one can show that climate change is an external cost resulting from a market failure.