Energy Exploration on Wilderness: "Privatization" and Public Lands Management
从技术可行性、经济效率和社会福利三个角度，探讨公共土地资源中私有与公共利益的平衡，指出政策应基于具体问题而非意识形态，为土地产权分配提供合理指南。
This note reviews three perspectives relevant to the balance of private and public interests in land resources: 1) the technical feasibility of private exploitation of publicly held lands, 2) economic efficiency, and 3) valuative questions of social welfare. It concludes that greater attention to the technical, economic, and social value of land resources is essential to the development of reasonable guidelines for the allocation of property rights. Policy in some cases will favor privatization, and in other cases will favor wilderness. The level of public debate in deciding these cases will be raised if it avoids ideology and rhetoric, and concentrates on more relevant issues. 88 references, 1 table.