Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Ratio Working Papers,
The Ratio Institute
No 50: Liberty, Markets and Environmental Values: A Hayekian Defence of Free Market Environmentalism
Mark Pennington ()
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Mark Pennington: Department of Politics, Postal: Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, England
Abstract: Communitarian conceptions of the 'situated self' lie at the core of 'green' critiques of market approaches to environmental problems. According to this perspective resource management issues should be dealt with in the 'public sphere' of democratic politics rather than the 'private sphere' of market drien consumer choice. This paper suggests that such arguments rest on a series of non-sequiturs. Drawing on Hayek's non-rationalist liberalism it shows that a 'situated' view of the self offers a radical endorsement of the case for privatisating environmental assets, wherever it is possible to do so.
Keywords: free market environmentalism; property rights; deliberative democracy
24 pages, May 25, 2004
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