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The private enterprise system can be blamed for the present environmental problem since it nurtures individualistic calculation methods and individualistic business activity. Only one’s own costs and benefits are taken into consideration and negative repercussions of production and consumption on others are ignored.
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J. Tinbergen, Economic Policy: Principles and Design. North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1956, pp. 4/5.
For more details see F. Hartog, Economische stelsels. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1970.
For the economic operation of the system of labour management, with regard to the aim of maximization of labour income, see: J. Vanek, The General Theory of Labor-Managed Market Economies. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1970.
J. Pen, ’ Zeven methoden van anti-vervuilingsbeleid: een poging tot systematiek’, Economisch Kwartaaloverzicht Amrobank, March 1971.
See also M. Glagow (ed.), Umweltgef lhrdung und Gesellschafts-system, particularly part III, Umwelt und Kapitalismus. R. Piper and Co., Munich, 1972.
For a more detailed account, see F. Hartog, Toegepaste wel-vaartseconomie. H. E. Stenfert Kroese, Leyden, 1973.
J. Tinbergen, ‘The Theory of the Optimum Regime’, Selected Papers, North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1959.
See Tinbergen, op. cit., p. 285.
He has devoted several publications to this, e. g. J. Tinbergen, ‘Do Communist and Free Economies Show a Converging Pattern?’, Soviet Studies, April 1961.
See Tinbergen, op. cit., p. 293.
See particularly E. J. Mishan, ‘The Postwar Literature on Externalities’, Journal of Economic Literature, March 1971, p. 3.
Mishan, op. cit., p. 20.
A closely allied argumentation is to be found in J. Zijlstra, ‘Milieu en Economische Orde’ in Tussentijds Bestek, Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming, The Hague, 1973.
Hueting in particular has repeatedly pointed out this. See e. g. R. Hueting, ‘De nieuwe schaarste is keihard’, Economisch-Statistische Berichten, 1 April 1970.
There are numerous publications on this, e. g. various publi-cations by the English economist A. Nove. In the Dutch language, there are several fairly recent studies which provide extensively documented information: W. J. van der Molen, Economische hervormingen in de Sowjet-Unie 1965–1969; Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1970; and S. van Popta, Inhalen en voorbijstreven; Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1971.
Van Popta, op. cit., pp. 83/84 and Van der Molen, op. cit. p. 365.
For environmental pollution in Russia: M. I. Goldman, ‘Um-weltzerstörung und Umweltvergiftung in der Sowjet-Union’, in the volume by Glagow, already mentioned above.
J. van den Doel, Konvergentie en evolutie. Van Gorcum and Comp., Assen 1971, pp. 92–94 and 163–166.
Idem, p. 93.
See G. Tullock, Private Wants, Public Means. Basic Books Inc., New York and London, 1970, p. 149 et seq.
This point is mentioned by Goldman in particular, in the above-mentioned volume by Glagow, pp. 89/90.
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Hartog, F. (1976). Environment and Economic System. In: Nijkamp, P. (eds) Environmental economics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4907-7_7
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