Property Rights Are Key to Answering Pope’s Call to Save the Amazon

In 2015 Pope Francis published encyclical Laudato Si  and stated that private property rights and markets were not fully compatible with sustanaible development and social justice and advocated more regulations for common good. Whaples and Summers of The Independent Institute explain that this is contrary  to the long tradition of the Catholic Church from Aquino Read more about Property Rights Are Key to Answering Pope’s Call to Save the Amazon[…]

Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations

In Privatization, Becky Mansfield et alii argue that contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people’s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization. Rich case studies of privatization in the making reveal both the pivotal role that privatization plays in neoliberalism Read more about Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations[…]

The new PERC report

We do think that this new PERC Report is worth reading Several excellent papers deal with the perverse  effect of environnemental regulations on private land : “ESA  turns threatened species into liabilities for for private landowners” and some  regulations increase wildfires. Fracking is assessed as environmentally more or less neutral. How Polliination entrepreneurs saved of Read more about The new PERC report[…]