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other ways that animals could be protected. Zoos and
w i I d - I i f e soc i e tie s are two t hat come tom i nd • Sueh
g r 0 ups w0 U1 d des ire toprot ectan i rna 1s for the i r own
sake and there is no reason they could not protect
endangered animals. Even hunting groups would desire
well-stocked game areas.
(75)Perkins and Perkins, p. 128.
( 7 6 ) Rot h bar d, " Con s e r vat ion ina F r e e Ma r k e t ," p.
113.
( 77 ) I bid., P • 112.
(78)E. J. Mishan, Technology an4 Growth (New
York: Praeger, 1969), p.37. '
( 7 9 ) The p ion e e r i n g w0 r k on non exc 1udab iIi t yi s
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (New
York: Shocken, 1965). The pioneering work on nonrivalry
is Paul Samuelson, "The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure,"
Review of Economics and Statistics (November
1954), pp. 387-89.
(80)Paul Samuelson J "Aspects of Public Expenditure
Theory," Review of Economics and Statistics (November
1958), p. 332. For a good critique of "public goods"
theory from a libertarian perspective see Barry
Brownstein, "Pareto Optimality, External Benefits and
Public Goods: A SUbjectivist Approach," The Journal of
Libertarian Studies (Winter 1980), pp. 93-106.
(81)Kenneth Goldin, "Equal Access vs. Selective
Access: A Critique of Public Goods Theory," Public
Ch 0 j c e (S p r i n g 19 7 7 ), pp. 53- 54 • Ro t h ba r d a Iso rna ke s
the pungent comment that if a pure public good dId
exist it would not be an economic good at all but "a
natural condition of human welfare, like air superabundant
to
p. 885.
all, and therefore unowned by anyone." MES,
.
( 82 ) Go I din, p • 62.
(83)Ibid., p. 54.
(84)Hospers, pp. 351-52.
(85)See Rothbard, MES, pp. 883-90; and Spencer
He a I t h MacCal I um, The Art 0 f C omm unit y (M enloPark,
Ca I .: Ins tit ute for Huma neSt udies, 19 70 ) •
(86)Robert Poole, "·Fighting Fires for Profit,"
Reason (May 1976), pp. 6-11. For more on the question
of private fire companies see Wollstein, pp.
28-31; Hospers, pp. 352-54; and Wooldridge, pp. 124-27.
Also see Wi II iam D. Burt, Local Problems; Libertarian
Solutions (Washington, D.C.: Libertarian National
Corom itte e, n. d . ), Chapte r 5, pp. 1-10.
( 8 7 ) Wi I I i a m For est ell, "Re f use Agglomera t e s: \\ hY
Cities Use Them," The American City (April 1974), p.
46. Many other such examples could be cited. See, for
example, Hospers, pp. 349-50; and Wooldridge.
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