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Известный мэр Дели будет судиться с BP!

CHICAGO - Mayor Richard M. Daley said Chicago could sue British Petroleum if the company moves ahead with plans to increase dumping in Lake Michigan. BP is expanding its refinery in Whiting, Ind. and has received permission from that state to dump more pollutants.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently sided with the company (естественно).

Удастся ли нашему мэру отмотать двести лет назад и возродить славную традицию? Цитирую по статье проф. Блока

Up to the 1820s and 1830s, the legal jurisprudence in Great Britain and the U.S. was more or less predicated upon the libertarian vision of non-invasiveness (Coase, 1960. Horwitz, 1977).

Typically a farmer would complain that a railroad engine had emitted sparks, which set ablaze his haystacks or other crops. Or a woman would accuse a factory of sending airborne pollutants to her property, which would dirty her clean laundry hanging on a clothesline. Or someone would object to the foreign matter imposed in one’s lungs without permission. Almost invariably, the courts would take cognizance of this violation of plaintiff's rights. (15) The usual result during this epoch was injunctive relief, plus an award of damages. [...]

But then in the 1840s and 1850s a new legal philosophy took hold. No longer were private property rights upheld. Now, there was an even more important consideration: the public good. And of what did the public good consist in this new dispensation? The growth and progress of the U.S. economy! Toward this end it was decided that the jurisprudence of the 1820s and 1830s was a needless indulgence. Accordingly, when an environmental plaintiff came to court under this new system, he was given short shrift. He was told, in effect, that of course his private property rights were being violated; but that this was entirely proper, since there is something even more important than selfish, individualistic property rights. And this was the "public good" of encouraging manufacturing. [...]

In the 1970s a "discovery" was made: the air quality was dangerous to human beings and other living creatures. Having caused the problem itself, the government now set out to cure it, with a whole host of regulations, which only made things worse.

Известный мэр Дели будет судиться с BP!

CHICAGO - Mayor Richard M. Daley said Chicago could sue British Petroleum if the company moves ahead with plans to increase dumping in Lake Michigan. BP is expanding its refinery in Whiting, Ind. and has received permission from that state to dump more pollutants.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently sided with the company (естественно).

Удастся ли нашему мэру отмотать двести лет назад и возродить славную традицию? Цитирую по статье проф. Блока

Up to the 1820s and 1830s, the legal jurisprudence in Great Britain and the U.S. was more or less predicated upon the libertarian vision of non-invasiveness (Coase, 1960. Horwitz, 1977).

Typically a farmer would complain that a railroad engine had emitted sparks, which set ablaze his haystacks or other crops. Or a woman would accuse a factory of sending airborne pollutants to her property, which would dirty her clean laundry hanging on a clothesline. Or someone would object to the foreign matter imposed in one’s lungs without permission. Almost invariably, the courts would take cognizance of this violation of plaintiff's rights. (15) The usual result during this epoch was injunctive relief, plus an award of damages. [...]

But then in the 1840s and 1850s a new legal philosophy took hold. No longer were private property rights upheld. Now, there was an even more important consideration: the public good. And of what did the public good consist in this new dispensation? The growth and progress of the U.S. economy! Toward this end it was decided that the jurisprudence of the 1820s and 1830s was a needless indulgence. Accordingly, when an environmental plaintiff came to court under this new system, he was given short shrift. He was told, in effect, that of course his private property rights were being violated; but that this was entirely proper, since there is something even more important than selfish, individualistic property rights. And this was the "public good" of encouraging manufacturing. [...]

In the 1970s a "discovery" was made: the air quality was dangerous to human beings and other living creatures. Having caused the problem itself, the government now set out to cure it, with a whole host of regulations, which only made things worse.

Это Виндхем

Оказывается, в Новой Зеландии нет сельскохозяйственных субсидий! Невероятно! Невероятно! Это, наверное, та самая недостижимая, являющаяся в телепатических снах Зеландия из известного романа Хризалиды.

Это Виндхем

Оказывается, в Новой Зеландии нет сельскохозяйственных субсидий! Невероятно! Невероятно! Это, наверное, та самая недостижимая, являющаяся в телепатических снах Зеландия из известного романа Хризалиды.

Тётенька прозрела!

По крайней мере, частично. Зажигательная статья!

"It really irks me lately that our taxpayer-owned neighborhood property is being rented out from under our nose to profiteers. [...] I say protest. I say if they are going to rent this stuff, let's at least form a community renting committee which sets the rates"

Тётенька прозрела!

По крайней мере, частично. Зажигательная статья!

"It really irks me lately that our taxpayer-owned neighborhood property is being rented out from under our nose to profiteers. [...] I say protest. I say if they are going to rent this stuff, let's at least form a community renting committee which sets the rates"