A free market, capitalist, exchange, political, economic system is far more environmentally friendly than any statist system, including the welfare state, socialism (whether democratic or centrally planned), or fascism. To demonstrate this, I would like to engage in some conjectural history, that is, to imagine how the world might be different had
Austrian economics lacks a formalized, self-conscious theory of environmental economics. But in fact all of the major elements of such a theory already exist and in that sense what is needed is to piece together the relevant aspects of Austrian economics in order to draw out and focus a theory that is already there. The purpose of this paper is to
Un sistema económico, político, de intercambio, capitalista, de libre mercado, es mucho más respetuoso con el medio ambiente que cualquier sistema estatista, incluidos el Estado benefactor, el socialismo (ya sea democrático o de planificación centralizada) o el fascismo. Para demostrarlo, me gustaría hacer un poco de historia conjetural, es decir,
A la economía austriaca la falta un teoría formal y consciente de la economía ambiental. Pero en realidad ya existen todos los elementos principales de una teoría así y en ese sentido lo que hace falta es agrupar los aspectos relevantes de la economía austriaca para crear y centrar una teoría que ya existe. El propósito de este escrito es hacer
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