Markets and the environment: friends or foes?

Sciences Po, the French elite school is traditionally leftist. However a student association, Think Libéral Sciences Po, is interested in free market and liberty. They asked Max Falque to speak on free market environmentalism on Octpber 11th with 2 other dissenting speakers. Some 60 students attended the 2 hour discussion on quite new concepts, especially the idea that property rights are the key for resource management. Obviously this position was never discussed in the formal curriculum which stresses “command and control.

Max Falque