Free-market environmentalism, which advocates private-property rights and market processes to promote environmental goals, is unlikely to make political progress unless its arguments are recast to address communitarian environmentalists on their own terms. F. A. Hayeks insights about decentralized knowledge, spontaneous order, and the systemic nature of environmental problems provide an immensely helpful framework for this task.
Liberty, Markets, and Environmental Values
A Hayekian Defense of Free-Market Environmentalism
By Mark Pennington
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