Featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
Wednesday, October 16
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Hamann Auditorium
Environmental amenities are valuable and deserve protection. But there are inevitable trade-offs among economic efficiency, personal liberty, and environmental amenities. Markets are useful in helping to assess alternatives and reach a good balance of the three. In some cases, such as land, private ownership also promotes environmental stewardship. In other cases, such as air and water, market forces can be channeled to promote better, more cost effective protection. Ultimate decisions about how much of what to protect will be made politically, but markets can inform environmental choices and improve environmental policies.
This speech is approved as a CLE, but does not address ethics.