A BP Reader: statist corporations, "the environment" and the Tragedy of the Government-Owned/-Managed Commons
For lack of a better place I left the following note on the moribund comment thread at Lew Rockwell’s May 5 “Feel Sorry for BP?” post:
Tom
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It’s more than a little disappointing – given how serious the economic damage being wrought by the BP situation is, and the role of government and BP in the genesis of the problem – how unproductive this thread has turned out to be.
Here is more information and analysis for any interested Austrians out there:
My related blog posts (including comments on/links to posts by Sheldon Richman, Kevin Carson, Ed Dolan, Matt Yglesias, Scott Sumner and Shawn Wilbur) can be found here: http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/search.aspx?q=bp
Roderick Long has links to various posts by others (Carson, Richman, plus Darian Worden, Gary Chartier, Alex Knight) here:
http://aaeblog.com/2010/06/08/roundup-on-bp/
My posts on fish and ocean drilling are also relevant:
http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/search.aspx?q=fish
http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/search.aspx?q=ANWR
Regards,