Overview
- Contextualises space travel and colonisation within historical economic thought applied to earth, including Adam Smith’s thoughts on traditional forms of property and governance
- Offers an academic perspective on current private projects in space travel and technological breakthroughts such as Virgin Galactic and Skreemr
- Explains how public/private partnerships fail
- Explores how and why states destroy the promise of space exploration
- Explains how a laissez faire view enhances the promise of space travel and colonization
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government. The authors advocate market-driven, private initiatives take the lead through enhanced competition and significant resources that can be allocated to the exploration and exploitation of outer space. Space travel and colonisation is analysed through the prism of economic freedom and laissez faire capitalism, in a unique and accessible book.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Peter Lothian Nelson has masters degrees in engineering and divinity. He has over 40 years of experience in civil engineering and forensics, and is the former president of PL Nelson Engineering Inc, USA.
Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, and senior fellow at the Mises Institute. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1972. He has taught at Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook, Baruch CUNY, Holy Cross and the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than 500 refereed articles in professional journals, two dozen books, and thousands of op eds. He lectures widely on college campuses, delivers seminars around the world and appears regularly on television and radio shows. He is the Schlarbaum Laureate, Mises Institute, 2011; and has won the Loyola University Research Award (2005, 2008) and the Mises Institute’s Rothbard Medal of Freedom,2005; and the Dux Academicus award, Loyola University, 2007.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space Capitalism
Book Subtitle: How Humans will Colonize Planets, Moons, and Asteroids
Authors: Peter Lothian Nelson, Walter E. Block
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74651-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74650-0Published: 23 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74651-7Published: 06 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 317
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Economics, Heterodox Economics, Economic Policy, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, R & D/Technology Policy, Regional/Spatial Science