Welcome and Introduction to Markets and Mandates | Markets vs. Mandates

Presenter: Terry Anderson and Dominic Parker, Hoover Institution
Environmental improvements and protections can result from government mandates or voluntary market activity. This introduction will outline the spectrum of governance approaches, ranging from command-and-control coercion on one extreme to laissez-faire on the other. It will give examples to highlight tradeoffs and implications for individual freedom, economic costs, and environmental quality.
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Hunting and fishing and gathering fruits/veggies/fungus/wood and mining and other extractions of things that you didn't create means you are consuming the common wealth. When you pollute or leak anything from your operations off your property, you are harming the common good. These are where government taxation for these negative externalities would have made sense. So of course that never happened, and they decided to tax labor and investments and trades, all of which we should want more of.