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Liberty, Markets and Environmental Values: A Hayekian Defence of Free Market Environmentalism

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  • Pennington, Mark

    (Department of Politics)

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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.

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  • Pennington, Mark, 2004. "Liberty, Markets and Environmental Values: A Hayekian Defence of Free Market Environmentalism," Ratio Working Papers 50, The Ratio Institute.
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    1. Fikret Adaman & Yahya M. Madra, 2012. "Understanding Neoliberalism as Economization: The Case of the Ecology," Working Papers 2012/04, Bogazici University, Department of Economics.
    2. Mark W. Neff & Zander Albertson, 2020. "Does higher education prepare students to bridge divides in today’s democracy?," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 10(2), pages 196-204, June.
    3. Graham Dawson, 2009. "Privatising Climate Policy," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(3), pages 57-62, September.
    4. Graham Dawson, 2021. "Defending liberal individualism against communitarian critiques," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(3), pages 476-488, October.
    5. Jonathan Benson, 2019. "Deliberative democracy and the problem of tacit knowledge," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 18(1), pages 76-97, February.
    6. Lenka Slavikova, 2013. "From Cost-Benefit to Institutional Analysis in The Economics of the Environment," Contemporary Economics, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw., vol. 7(2), June.

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    Keywords

    free market environmentalism; property rights; deliberative democracy;
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    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B53 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Austrian
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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