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Clean politics, dirty profits: rent-seeking behind the green curtain / Jonathan H. Adler -- Public choice and the environment: from the frying pan to the fire / Bruce Yandle -- The law and politics of federal wildlife preservation / Dean Lueck -- Bucks for ducks or money for nothin'?: the political economy of the federal duck stamp program / Kurtis J. Swope, Daniel K. Benjamin, and Terry L. Anderson -- Unnatural disaster: how politics destroyed Canada's Atlantic groundfisheries / Elizabeth Brubaker -- The origins of the federal wilderness system / David Gerard -- The politics of superfund / Thomas Stratmann -- The politics of the clean air act / Andrew P. Morriss. "In Political Environmentalism, Terry Anderson and his contributors show how environmental special interests have indeed provided the high moral ground for economic special interests who stand to gain from legislation that hampers competition. The book documents a range of examples of how politics and environmentalism mix to produce strange bedfellows and perverse results. It shows, for instance, how clean air and water legislation based on technology standards actually results in dirtier air and higher costs to consumers. It tells how wilderness designations and Superfund sites are usually determined more by economic interests than by any other factor. And it reveals how the Endangered Species Act puts property rights up for grabs in the political arena - doing little to save species but consuming considerable resources in the process." "Throughout the book, Political Environmentalism boldly confronts specific environmental laws, asking whether they were motivated by environmental concerns. whether they achieve their goals, whether they are cost-effective - and, most important whether they in fact generate perverse results."--Jacket. |
