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Items in this update:
o The problem of environmental protection
o Consumer choice will reduce electricity prices and their volatility
o No competition need apply
o Giant chain stores vs. mom and pop stores
o The new old economy: oil, computers, and the reinvention of the earth
o Do Wal-Mart and Home Depot spell the end of 'community'?
o Dense thinkers
o Demand side bidding will reduce the level and volatility of electricity
prices
o Using experiments to inform the privatization/deregulation movement in
electricity
o Privatising parks: why the private sector can enhance nature protection
o Pesticides and property rights
o 'Eco-washer' tax credit an extra load for consumers?
o CEI says no to CAFE standards for SUVs
o California governor passes the ball to feds on power shortage
o DC Mayor rethinking chocolate milk ad
o Ban on roads in national forests fuels fires
o 50 reasons gasoline isn't cheaper
o Alabama conservationists cooperate to lure in the fish
o 'Wetlands' taking goes to trial
o Legal group welcomes end of grizzy bear reintroduction plan
o Breathe easier: The American Lung Association's misleading 'State of the
Air 2001' report
o Save Africa, save DDT
o Western land use still dictated from Washington
o The Wood Duck's return
o Coal power plants under fire in North Carolina
o Washington governor should approve new power plant
o How fat and salt became bad
o Davis melts down
o Avoid blackouts now
o CEI comments on FDA's new bioengineered foods policy
o Environmentalism refuted
o A free market would avoid blackouts -- now
o New look for the Center for Private Conservation
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
The problem of environmental protection
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by Dwight R. Lee
Lee acknowledges that protecting the environment is a tricky problem, but
says that economic insights can help us navigate the minefield. (04/01)
dlee@terry.uga.edu
http://www.fee.org/iol/01/0104/lee.html
Consumer choice will reduce electricity prices and their volatility
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by Vernon L. Smith
Experiments conducted at the economic sciences lab at the University of
Arizona show that giving consumers the options of pricing power at
different rates at different times of the day vastly reduced price
volatility. (05/01)
http://www.mercatus.org/research/smithc
hoice.pdf
No competition need apply
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by Beth Skinner
Are you an independent business owner? Tired of having to lower your
prices, provide superior customer service and
guaranteed satisfaction? ... The Boulder Independent Business Alliance
proposed an ordinance that would limit the number of chain stores in the
city to shield local,
independently owned retail stores from competition. (06/12/00)
http://www.i2i.org/SuptDocs/OpEdArcv/2
000/NoCompetition.htm
Giant chain stores vs. mom and pop stores
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by Michael LaFaive
"In a free market economy, large chain stores place smaller stores in
the position of having to remain competitive. True, not all small
businesses can survive this
competition. But while it can be heart breaking to personally see small,
family-owned businesses get 'crowded out' by the big boys, a proper
economic
analysis must consider productivity increases in net terms."
(11/01/97)
http://www.mackinac.org/print.asp?ID
=677
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/brief/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
The new old economy: oil, computers, and the reinvention of the earth
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by Jonathan Rauch
"Knowledge, not petroleum, is becoming the critical resource in the
oil business," the author writes in this firsthand account of how
technology is stretching the
bounds of finitude. (01/01)
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/0
1/rauch.htm
Do Wal-Mart and Home Depot spell the end of 'community'?
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by Nick Gillespie
"[It is] absurd to try to maintain the status quo (or an idealized
version of the past) in the face of evolving desires, products, and
technologies. In seeing sprawl as
the enemy of vitality, the anti-superstore activists turn a blind eye to
the very ways that people keep their communities alive." (05/95)
http://www.reason.com/9505/NICKwalm
art.may.html
Dense thinkers
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by Randal O'Toole
"New Urbanism," the latest fad in urban planning, promises less
traffic, better air, and lower taxes. Here's what it really delivers.
(01/99)
http://www.reason.com/9901/fe.ro.dense
thinkers.html
Demand side bidding will reduce the level and volatility of electricity
prices
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by Stephen J. Rassenti, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson Flat-rate
pricing of electricity for end-users has greatly contributed to the
volatility of power availability and pricing. Allowing users to pay
different rates at different times of the day would go a long way toward
solving this problem, sophisticated computer analysis shows. (02/01)
http://www.mercatus.org/research/smithd
emand.pdf
Using experiments to inform the privatization/deregulation movement in
electricity
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by Stephen J. Rassenti, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson
Sophisticated computer analysis at the University of Arizona has led to
some interesting free-market policy recommendations regarding the
possibilities of deregulating and privatizing the electricity industry.
(02/01)
http://www.mercatus.org/research/smith
using.pdf
Privatising parks: why the private sector can enhance nature protection
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by Jeff Bennett
Prof. Bennett suggests that a competitive private sector and ecological
preservation are not the polar opposites they are often made out to be.
(Adobe Acrobat) (05/01)
http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/summer00-0
1/summ-2.pdf
Pesticides and property rights
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by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss
Meiners and Morriss give yet another example of government intervention
that has inhibited environmental justice
and resource efficiency. In this case, the authors explain the history of
DDT and its use in controlling malaria outbreaks. Available in Adobe PDF
format. (05/01)
http://www.perc.org/ps22.pdf
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybycat
egory/in-depth/
==> News Reports <==
'Eco-washer' tax credit an extra load for consumers?
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"Some consider it a soaking for consumers. Others think a tax credit
for washing-machine manufacturers would be
just the prod needed to get the new energy-efficient machines on the
market as soon as possible." (05/01/01)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/busin
ess/columns/economy/regulators/A253
49-2001Apr30.html
CEI says no to CAFE standards for SUVs
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"CAFE is a bad idea and requiring SUVs to meet the same standard as
cars is an even worse idea," says CEI expert
on fuel economy standards. (05/04/01)
http://www.cei.org/PRReader.asp?ID=1461
California governor passes the ball to feds on power shortage
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Insisting that California's power woes are beyond the means of the state
to address, Governor Gray Davis wants the
federal government to bail him out by mandating lower prices for wholesale
electricity. (05/08/01)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/08/powe
r.woes/index.html
DC Mayor rethinking chocolate milk ad
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Tony Williams had considered doing a "Got Chocolate Milk?" ad,
wearing a chocolate milk mustache, which would have appeared in local
newspapers and on billboards. But health claims from food nanny groups are
taking their toll on his resolve ... in typical bureaucratic
fashion, he's kicking the question to his health director for resolution.
(05/02/01)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wjla/200105
02/lo/mayor_rethinks_milk_ad_1.html
Ban on roads in national forests fuels fires
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CEI Senior Fellow Dr. Robert H. Nelson reminds the Forest Service of the
management pitfalls that come with
eliminating roads in almost 60 million acres of U.S. forests. (05/04/01)
http://www.cei.org/PRReader.asp?ID=1464
50 reasons gasoline isn't cheaper
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Among other reasons gas costs have risen, refineries must make 50
different blends of gasoline to satisfy the laws
of each state -- and further demands for special formulations are on the
way. (05/04/01)
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/0
5/04/fp1s3-csm.shtml
Alabama conservationists cooperate to lure in the fish
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by Judy Kent
Build it and they'll come? Yes. Fishermen and other state conservationists
have been working together for years to
build artificial reefs off the coast of Alabama. And the snapper are
moving right in. (04/21/01)
http://www.privateconservation.org/press_
releases.php?article_id=66
'Wetlands' taking goes to trial
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"In late February, after nine years of litigation, a two-day trial
was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a landowner denied the ability to
use his land for economic activity sought constitutionally mandated 'just
compensation.'" (Spring, 2001)
mslf@free-market.net
http://www.mountainstateslegal.org/litigat
or_articles.cfm?articleid=146
Legal group welcomes end of grizzy bear reintroduction plan
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by William Perry Pendley
"The Bush Administration's apparent abandonment of a Clinton
Administration plan to put grizzly bears in rural Idaho and Montana was
welcomed today by one of the groups that had threatened to sue federal
officials if the plan were carried out," the Mountain States Legal
Foundation (04/26/01).
mslf@free-market.net
http://www.mountainstateslegal.org/press
_releases.cfm?pressreleaseid=121
For more News Reports see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyca
tegory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Breathe easier: The American Lung Association's misleading 'State of the
Air 2001' report
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by Joel Schwartz
A new report by the American Lung Association "misleads the public
into believing that air pollution is getting
worse, when in fact it has been improving for more than 20 years."
(05/04/01)
http://www.rppi.org/rr050401.html
Save Africa, save DDT
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by Deroy Murdock
"Some one million African, Asian, and Latin American lives could be
saved annually by the substance that nearly
extinguished the bald eagle." (05/04/01)
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/m
urdock050401.shtml
Western land use still dictated from Washington
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by Daniel Kemmis
Centralized control over land use in the West doesn't appear to be waning
much under the new administration. Whether it's environmental policy or
energy policy, the
shots are still being called from Washington, D.C. (05/01)
http://www.headwatersnews.org/dan430
01.html
The Wood Duck's return
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by Michael DeAlessi
The story of the Wood Duck's recovery in the U.S. is one that should be
noted by people concerned about endangered species. Private conservation
has worked and will continue to work to protect dwindling populations of
species. (05/02/01)
http://www.privateconservation.org/comm
ent.php?article_id=61
Coal power plants under fire in North Carolina
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by Thomas Paul De Witt
"Legislators should look at the big picture before they leap at
imposing new regulations," writes De Witt.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/analysis/0
42701a.html
Washington governor should approve new power plant
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by Dan Zarelli
"Research finds that there are no environmental concerns of any
significance that should hold up construction of an additional Sumas Power
Plant." (04/26/01)
http://www.wips.org/Press%20Releases/
PRSumas2.htm
How fat and salt became bad
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by Ronald Bailey
The government has preached for years that people should limit their
intake of salt and fat, and some food nannies even want to make limits
mandatory, but the
science behind the finger-wagging is shaky. (05/02/01)
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb050201.html
Davis melts down
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by Lance T. Izumi
California's power crisis has proven to be too much to take for Governor
Gray Davis. He's lost support from legislators, and control of himself.
(04/01)
http://www.pacificresearch.org/capital/01
-04-23.html
Avoid blackouts now
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by George Reisman
"California reportedly is faced with the prospect of thirty days of
rolling blackouts this summer, along with all of the accompanying chaotic
consequences. And yet, there is a very simple, free-market way to prevent
these impending blackouts: namely, raise the price of electric
power." (05/02/01)
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?contr
ol=669&FS=Avoid+Blackouts+Now
CEI comments on FDA's new bioengineered foods policy
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by Gregory Conko
Read CEI's comments on the Food and Drug Administration's proposed rule
regarding premarket notice for bioengineered foods. (05/04/01)
http://www.cei.org/RemarksReader.asp
?ID=1463
Environmentalism refuted
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by George Reisman
Reisman is one of the two or three guys on the planet who really knows how
to clobber environmentalism. "All economic activity has as its sole
purpose the
improvement of the environment -- it aims exclusively at the improvement
of the external, material conditions of human life." (05/01)
http://www.capitalism.net./articles/Environ
mentalism%20Refuted.htm
A free market would avoid blackouts -- now
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by George Reisman
An economist explains the obvious: "All that needs be done to avoid
blackouts [in California] is to raise the price to the extent necessary to
reduce the quantity of electric power demanded to the point that it will
be within the limit of the ability to supply electric power. Then there
will
be no blackouts." (05/01)
http://www.capitalism.net./articles/Avoid
Blackouts Now.htm
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyca
tegory/commentary/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
New look for the Center for Private Conservation
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The Center for Private Conservation has a new web site. Read stories about
landowners' environmental stewardship
initiatives from around the world.
http://www.privateconservation.org/
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/organizations/
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