Robert H. Nelson

Robert H. Nelson est chercheur à l'Institut indépendant [Independent Institute] et professeur de politique environnementale à l'École de politique publique de l'Université du Maryland. Il a obtenu ses diplômes universitaires en mathématiques de l'Université Brandeis et un doctorat en économie de l'Université de Princeton.

Il fut économiste pour la commission du Sénat américain sur l'étude des question indiennes et chercheur dans plusieurs centres de recherche : Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Property and Environment Research Center [Centre de recherche sur l'environnement et la propriété], Competitive Enterprise Institute, etc.

Il est l'auteur de nombreux volumes et articles dans des revues portant sur les sujets de l'environnement, du gouvernement local, du zonage, des droits de propriété, de l'économie de la religion et sur l'échec de la gestion scientifique.

Bibliographie

• 1977, Zoning and Property Rights: An Analysis of the American System of Land Use Regulation, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
  • Version paperback en 1980

• 1983, The Making of Federal Coal Policy, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press

• 1990, “Unoriginal Sin: The Judeo-Christian Roots of Ecotheology”, Policy Review, Summer, pp52-59

• 1991, Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics, Savage, Md.: Romman and Littlefield, avant-propos de Donald N. McCloskey,
  • Version paperback en 1993

• 1992, Wilderness, Church, and State, Liberty, September 1

• 1993, Environmental Calvinism: The Judeo-Christian Roots of Environmental Theology, In: Roger E. Meiners et Bruce Yandle, dir., Taking the Environment Seriously, Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, pp233–255

• 1994, Transferring Federal Lands in the West to the States: How would it work? Points West Chronicle, Winter 1994-95, Center for the New West, Denver, Colorado, pp6-7

• 1995,
  • a. Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland
  • b. Beyond the Progressive Paradigm, Inner Voice 7(5):12-13. Association of Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics, Eugene, Oregon.

• 1996, "Bruce Babbitt, Pipeline to the Almighty", The Weekly Standard, June 24

• 1997, Does “Existence Value” Exist? An Essay on Religions, Old and New, The Independent Review, Vol 1, spring, pp499–521

• 1998, Calvinism minus God, Forbes Magazine, 5 octobre

• 1999, Privatizing the Neighborhood: A Proposal to Replace Zoning with Private Collective Property Rights to Existing Neighborhoods, George Mason Law Review, 7(4), pp827-880
  • Repris en 2002, In: David Beito, Peter Gordon et Alexander Tabarrok, dir., The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, Ch 13, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

• 2000, A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

• 2001,
  • a. Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond, University Park: Penn State University Press
    • Version paperback en 2002
  • b. Frank Knight and Original Sin, Independent Review, 6 (Summer), pp5-25

• 2003, Environmental Colonialism: “Saving” Africa from Africans, The Independent Review, Vol 8, n°1, Summer

• 2005,
  • a. Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government, Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press
  • b. “The Theology of Economics”, In: James W. Henderson et John Pisciotta, dir., Faithful Economics: The Moral Worlds of a Neutral Science, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press
  • c. “In Defense of Religious Neighborhood Associations”, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 25, n°4, Fall
  • d. “All in the Name of Progress: An Essay", commentaire du livre de Paul R. Josephson’s Industrialized Nature, Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol 23, n°2, October
  • e. “Doing ‘Secular Theology:’ Business Ethics in Economic and Environmental Religion”, In: Nicholas Capaldi, dir., Business and Religion: A Class of Civilizations?, Salem, MA: M & M Scrivener Press

• 2006,
  • a. “New Community Associations for Established Neighborhoods”, Review of Policy Research, Vol 23, n°6, November
  • b. “Rethinking the American Constitution”, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 26, n°3-4, Summer/Fall
  • c. “Valuing Nature: Economic Analysis and Public Land Management, 1975-2000”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, July
    • reprise en 2006, In: Laurence S. Moss, dir., Natural Resources, Taxation & Regulation: Unusual Perspectives on a Classic Topic, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing
  • d. ”Economics as Religion: A Reply to the Commenters”, [réponses à 8 articles du livre de Robert H. Nelson, Economics as Religion, dans un symposium de la Law Review dédié à son livre], Case Western Reserve Law Review, Spring

• 2007,
  • a. “The Gospel According to Conservation Biology”, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Vol 27, n°3-4, Summer/Fall
  • b. “The Philippine Economic Mystery”, The Philippine Review of Economics, June

• 2008,
  • a. A Covenant for Globalization?: An Essay, commentaire du livre de Max L. Stackhouse, Globalization and Grace, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Winter
  • b. “Global Warming and Religion: Climate Policy as Applied Theology”, In: The Global Warming Debate: Science, Economics, and Policy, Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, November 2-3, 2007, Great Barrington, MA: American Institute for Economic Research
  • c. “Community Associations: Decentralizing Local Government Privately”, In: Gregory K. Ingram et Yu-Hung Hong, dir., Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

• 2009, “The Puzzle of Local Double Taxation: Why Do Private Community Associations Exist?,” The Independent Review, Winter

• 2010,
  • a. Ecological Science as a Creation Story, The Independent Review, Vol 14, n°4, spring
  • b. The New Holy Wars. Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, ISBN 978-0-271-03581-9

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