Terry Anderson Asks Who Washes A Rental Car?

Published: August 15, 2018

Environmental problems result from the tragedy of the commons. In order to solve those problems, free market environmentalists look toward the one place where the tragedy of the commons doesn’t happen – in markets with clearly defined, enforced, and tradeable property rights. Property rights give people the incentive to protect their assets, and environmental problems often come down to the fact no one has an incentive to conserve the environment.

This video’s audio is excerpted from Terry Anderson’s 2017 Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp lecture. 

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Additional Resources

• For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world.
• In "Greener than Thou: Are You Really An Environmentalist?"by Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins, the authors make a powerful argument for free market environmentalism as they break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist.
• Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, "Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation."
• In "Join the Green Tea Party," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos.
• In “We’re all environmentalists now,”Terry Anderson is interviewed in the Epoch Times.