Is Free Market Environmentalism "Mainstream"? By Terry L. Anderson and Jane S. Shaw Many mainstream economists have found that the well-accepted principles that explain market behavior and underlie prosperity also explain environmental problems and offer ways to solve them This essay is from a PERC book titled "A Blueprint for Environmental Education." (It is now out of print) |
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Terry Anderson is the president of PERC and the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He believes that market approaches can be both economically sound and environmentally sensitive. His research helped launch the idea of free-market environmentalism and has prompted public debate over the proper...
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More Articles by Terry Anderson > Before joining PERC, Jane Shaw was a journalist who had developed an uneasy feeling that much of the commentary about environmental policy that she read--and even some that she wrote--was tilted in the wrong direction. The usual solution to an environmental problem was to turn it over to the government. She had become uncomfortable with this...
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