Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson

Roger Meiners · Pierre Desrochers · Andrew Morriss

Sep 2012 · Cato Institute

About this ebook

Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. Their findings: much of what Carson presented as fact was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.

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About the author

Roger Meiners is the Goolsby Distinguised Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Texas at Arlington and a senior fellow at the Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.

Pierre Desrochers is associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto. His main research areas include technical innovation, business-environmental interactions, economic development, and food policy.

Andrew Morriss is D. Paul Jones Jr. and Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and is a senior fellow at the Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 book chapters, scholarly articles, and books.