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Reconciling profits and sustainable development: Industrial waste recycling in market economies
Most authors still believe that the search for increased profitability has traditionally been incompatible with this goal because it favours a short-term perspective in which manufacturers tend to lower their costs by dumping polluting emissions into nature. This view, however, is based on a historically inaccurate assessment. Not only are higher profits and a cleaner environment compatible, but much historical evidence suggests that industrial recycling is a long-practised, productive and, indeed, essential element of the market system.

4-minute read
One Man’s Waste Is Another Man’s…?
Publication of an Economic Note on industrial waste recycling in market economies.

4-minute read
Give us hard facts on Kyoto
Open Letter to the Hon. Stéphane Dion, Minister of the Environment.

3-minute read
Environnement et profit
Business profits and their consequences for the environment.

3-minute read
Revoir la gestion de l’eau
The debate over the tariffing and privatisation of our drinking water.

7-minute read
Regulatory Roadblocks to Turning Waste to Wealth
The effets of state regulations on garbage recycling.

9-minute read
‘Planned Chaos’: Industrial Waste Recycling in Communist Countries
Recycling in communist and capitalist countries.

12-minute read
The Unsustainable Politics of ‘Natural Capitalism’
Political interventions in favor of industries are often harmful to the environment.

12-minute read
Saving the Environment for a Profit, Victorian-Style
Good old greed is responsible for declining pollution during Victorian England.

8-minute read
Le progrès économique et l’environnement sont indissociables
The MEI launches a study on the preservation of the environment in a market economy.