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Is the Environment a Public Good?
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-01-28 04:00
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So we have not had a free marketplace, where civil protections against pollution and other tortious activity never arose because the transaction costs were too high. What we have actually had is a state capitalist marketplace, where the state artificially raised the transaction costs of enforcing civil protections against pollution.
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