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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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Paper provided by The Ratio Institute in its series Ratio Working Papers with number 50.

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Date of creation: 25 May 2004
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Keywords: free market environmentalism; property rights; deliberative democracy;

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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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