Lone Mountain Fellows 2012
- Randal Rucker: Professor of Agricultural Economics at Montana State University
Topic:Indian and Non-Indian Salmon Fisheries
Paper: The Microeconomics of a Natural Resource Boom: Evidence from the Washington State Tribal Fishery
- Andrew Hanssen: Professor of Economics at Clemson University
Topic: Eminent Domain in the 19th Century Railroad Boom
Paper: Courts, Legislatures, and the Adaptability of Property Rules: Eminent Domain in the 19th Century Railroad Boom
- Michael 't Sas-Rolfes: Wildlife Consultant in South Africa
Topic: Markets for Wildlife
Paper: Can Legal Trade in Rhino Horn Save Rhinos?
- Tim Fitzgerald: Professor of Agricultural Economics at Montana State University
Topic: Incorporating Water Quality into Prior Appropriation
Paper: Prior Appropriation and Water Quality
- Sarah Hallier: International Relations Graduate Student at Harvard University
Topic: Markets for Wildlife
Paper: Evaluating the Role of CITES in Protecting Rhinos
- Jonathan Klick: Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania
Paper: Plastic Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness
- Gary Libecap: Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Addressing Global Externalities
Paper: Addressing Global Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations
- Quinn Weninger: Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa
Topic: Market Speculation and Environmental Permits
Paper: Fleet Rationalization Under Individual Transferable Quotas
- Frank Wolak: Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Topic: Increasing the IQ of the Smart Grid
Paper: An Experimental Comparison of Critical Peak and Hourly Pricing: The PowerCentsDC Program
- JB Ruhl: Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School
Topic: Background Principles for Post-Stationarity Property Law
Paper: Global Climate Change and US Law: The Next Legal Frontiers
- Jonathan Yoder: Professor of Economics at Washington State University
- Dean Lueck: Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona
Topic: Institutions and Wildfire Suppression
Paper: Economic Organization and Wildfire: Complex Property Rights and Emergency Conditions
- Jason Johnston: Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School
Paper: Global Warming and the End of Environmental Law
- John Briscoe: Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health at Harvard University
Paper: The Challenge of Water in a Changing World
- Dominic Parker: Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic: Natural Resources and American Indians
Paper: The Unintended Consequences of Conflict Mineral Regulations
- Harrison Zeff: Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paper: Incentives for Water Utilities and Consumers During Drought
Lone Mountain Fellows 2011
- Claire Priest: Professor of Law at Yale Law Scool
Topic:Creating an American Property Law
Seminar: The Colonial Transformation of Property and the Formation of an American Legal Order, 1650-1820 - Christopher Costello: Professor of the Environmental and Resource Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara
Seminar:Enhanced Conservation Via Marine Property Right - Bart J. Wilson: joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics, the School of Law, and the Wilkinson College of Humanites & Social Sciences at Chapman University.
Topic: Territorial foundations of human property - Daniel Kaffine: Assistant Professor in the Division of Economics and Business at the Colorado School of Mines
Topic: Severable wind rights from an economic perspective
Seminar: Wind Power and Split Estate - Dino Falaschetti: Associate Professor of Law and Economics at Florida State University
Topic: Transactions cost leadership
Seminar: Transactions cost leadership on the politics, law, and economics of creating wealth and spreading opportunity - Eric Coleman: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University
Topic: The effects of different types of property rights on environmental sustainability
Seminar: Property Rights and Environmental Sustainability: Household Evidence from Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda - James Salzman: Joint appointments at Duke University at the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law and as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy
Topic: Game Theory
Seminar: Gaming the Past: The Theory and Practice of Historic Baselines in the Administrative State - Jeffrey Bennett:: Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
Topic: Little Green Lies
Seminar: Property Rights and Land Degradation in China - Jonathan Adler: Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Topic: Firm theory and contemporary pollution problems
Seminar: Property Rights and Land Degradation in China - Matthew Neidell:: Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University
Topic: Willingness to pay for water quality - Mathew Kahn: Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy
Topic: Cities adaptation to climate change
Seminar: How will climate change impact urbanities and their cities? - Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes: Sustainability Economist and Consultant
Topic: International Wildlife Trade Policy - Richard Rice: President of the Save Your World Foundation
Topic: Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding
Seminar: Property rights and conservation agreements in developing countries - Sergey Mityakov: Professor of Economics at Clemson University
Topic:Oil trade diversification, international relations, and energy security
Seminar: Political Limits on World Oil Trade - Randy Rucker: Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University
Topic: Pollination markets and colony collapse disorder in bee populations
Seminar: The Economic Consequences of Bee Disease - Steven Medema: Professor of Economics and the Director of the University Honors and Leadership Program at the University of Colorado Denver
Topic: Coase and the Environment
Seminar: Of Coase and Carbon: The Coase Theorem in Environmental Economics, 1960-1979 - Todd Zywicki: Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University
Topic: Takings Law
Seminar: The Political Economy of Takings Law: Of Public Use and Just Compensation
Lone Mountain Fellows 2010
- Bart J. Wilson: joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Chapman University.
Topic: Whaler's Rule of Capture
Seminar: "The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers' Rules of Capture" (coauthors: Taylor Jaworski, Karl Schurter, and Andrew Smyth) - Matthew Turner: Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto.
Topic:Urban Travel/Road Congestion
Seminar: "Urban Travel/Road Congestion" - Brian Steed: Researcher and teacher in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
Topic: Water Rights
Seminar: "The impact of adjudication on groundwater resources: An over time look at groundwater governance in Los Angeles County, California" - Paul Schwennesen: Double Check Ranch.
Topic: Conservation Easements
Seminar: "When Eminent Domain and Conservation Easements Collide: An Arizona Ranching Family Finds Itself in a Conservation Quagmire" - Kurt Schnier: Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University. .
Topic: Fisheries
Seminar: "Regional delivery impacts in rights-based fisheries " - Mark Sagoff: Director and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Topic: Markets for Ecological Services
Seminar: "The Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services" - Matthew Neidell: Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, at Columbia University.
Topic: Impact of environmental conditions on worker productivity
Seminar: Research Results - Robert H. Nelson: Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland and a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center. .
Topic: Land Forum
Seminar: "The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion " - Jason Johnston: Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Topic: Optimal Degree of Regulatory Deference to Scientific Experts
Seminar: "Profits or Social Networks: What Determines the Bribe Payments Made by Entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe?" - Todd BenDor: Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Topic: Assessing Regulatory and Entrepreneurial Risk in US Wetland and Stream Markets
Seminar: "Forces Promoting U.S. Wetland and Stream Banking" - Larry Chavis, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Topic: Weak Institutions and Ability of American Indians to Become Entrepreneurs
Seminar: "Profits or Social Networks: What Determines the Bribe Payments Made by Entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe?" - Christopher Costello, Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California-Santa Barbara.
Topic: Spatiality
Seminar: "Marine protected areas in spatial property-rights fisheries, Unitization of spatially connected renewable resources " - Anca M. Cotet, Assistant Professor of Economics at Ball State University
Topic:Climate Change Mitigation
Seminar: "Technological Improvement and Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Air Conditioning and Seasonal Mortality in the United States" - Rebecca Goldman, Central Science Division of the Nature Conservancy
Topic:Markets for Ecosystem services in Patagonia
Seminar: "Ecosystem Services: Developing Markets to Help Conserve Patagonia Grasslands Proposal and Work Plan for Advancing Ecosystem Service Contracting " - David Haddock, Professor of Law and Economics at Northwestern University
Topic: CAFE
Seminar: "CAFE - the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate"
Lone Mountain Fellows 2009
- Jonathan Adler, Professor and Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western University School of Law
Topic: "Labeling law--the extent to which the government can require companies to disclose truthful information" - Sarah Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California-Santa Barbara
Topic: "The problem with neighbors: Jurisdictions and resource use" - H. Spencer Banzhaf, Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University
Topic: Markets for Land and Pollution: The Political Economy of Environmental Justice - Olivier Deschenes, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: The Impact of Climate Change on Health in India: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather - Eric Mack, Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University
Topic: The Natural Right of Property - Gregory L. Poe, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economic Management, Cornell University
Topic: Primer on Water Trading - Larry E. Ribstein, Visiting Professor of Law, New York University Law School
Topic: The Market for Environmental Law - Robert P. Saldin, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Montana
Topic: The Role of Natural Resources in Western Politics - Kurt E. Schnier, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University
Topic: Production Efficiency, Exit, and Co-op Formation in Rights-Based Fisheries - Kevin Tsui, Assistant Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Topic: Economic and Environmental Curse of Oil: Dutch Disease or Malthusian Trap?
Lone Mountain Fellows 2008
- Steve Bick, Consulting Forester and Adjunct Faculty Member, State College of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Seminar: "Forest Enterprise of the Adirondacks - Christopher Costello, Assistant Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California-Santa Barbara
Topic: Can spatial property rights fix fisheries? - Jason Johnson, Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Topic: Climate change hysteria and the Supreme court: On the Economic Impact of Global Warming on the U.S. and the misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act - Dean Lueck, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Co-director, Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment, University of Arizona
Topic: Domestication and ownership of wild species - G. Patrick Lynch, Senior Fellow, Liberty Fund
Seminar: "From Eden to Leviathan: The Evolution of Politics from the State of Nature" - Josiah Ober, Professor of Classics and Political Science, Stanford University
Seminar: "Epistemic democracy in classical Athens: How diversity can foster innovation" - Julian Morris and Kendra Okonski, International Policy Network, London
Seminar: "Which Policy to Address Climate change" - Dominic Parker, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
Topic: Rule of law and access to credit on American Indian reservations - The Honorable Matthew Ridley, English business man and popular science author
Seminar: "The Ecology of Human Progress"
Lone Mountain Fellows 2007
- Sarah Anderson ,Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Department of Political Science, University of California-Santa Barbara
Topic: Analysis of environmentalvoting behavior
Seminar: "The Green Machine: Environmental Constituents and Congressional Voting" - Steve Bick, Consulting Forester and Adjunct Faculty Member, State College of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Publication: "Ownership and Stewardship Go Hand in Hand: One Family, Many Acres and Seven Generations of Ownership," PERC Reports, Summer 2008 - Nicholas Georgiadis, Director, Mpala Reserach Center, Nanyuki, Kenya
Topic: Conserving wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya's Ewaso Ecosystem,
Seminar: "The Wonder and Decline of Animal Migrations" - Michael Norton-Griffiths,
Independeent Wildife Consultant, Kenya
Topic:Economic impact of secure property rights in Kenya's agricultural sector, and the rapid evolution of property rights on Kenya's rangelands
Seminar: "Contemporary issues of land tenure in Kenya" - J. Bisho Grewell,Attorney, Mayer Brown, LLP, Chicago
Topic: Analysis of voluntary pollution easements purchased by the Anaconda Mining Company at the turn of the 20th Century
Seminar: "In Search of Entitlements: One Explanation to the Damages/Injunction Choice" - D. Bruce Johnsen, Professorof Law, George Mason University
Topic: Property rights, Institutioins, and salmon fishing practices of the Northwest Coast Indian tribes
Seminars: "Socially Responsible Investing PERC style: A Preliminary Investigation" and "Science, Salmon, and Primitive Man on the Northwest Coast. - Kurt E. Schnier, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Georgis State University
Topic: The value of a statistical life and rights-based fisheries policy: The Case of the Alaskan Crab Fishers
Seminars: "Common property information, and cooperation: Commercial fishing in the Bering Sea" and "Occupational Risk and Rights-based fisheries Policy: Studying Changes in the Deadliest Catch" - James Workman
Publications: "Tapping our ingenuity," News Tribune, Nov. 25, 2007
"The Water Ethic: Fitful Birth of a certain Alienable Right," Draft paper, Dec.1, 2007
Lone Mountain Fellows 2006
- Nigel Asquith, Director of Science, Fundacion Natura Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Topic: Promoting markets for watershed services in Bolivia: Can the FME model be exported? The Case of Los Negros-Santa Rosa
Seminar: with Maria Teresa Varga. "Evaluating intervention policies (e.g. markets for environmental services) in protecting the environment and reducing poverty: Shifting focus from measuring and monitoring 'inputs' and 'outputs,' to qunatified and replicated measurement of 'outcomes'."
Publications: "bees and Barbed Wire for Water,' Perc Reports, December 2006
"Selling Two Environmental Services: In-kind payments of bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia," with Maria Teresa Vargas, and Sven Wunder, Ecologial Economics, 65(4) 2008, 675-684.
"Tratos, Justos Para Servicios Hidrolgicos en Bolivia," with Maria Teresa Vargas. London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Fundacion Natura Bolivia - Steve Bick, Consulting Forester and Adjunct Faculty Member, State College of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Publication: Adirondack Forest Owner's Manual Forest Enterprise Institute, April 2007 - Ted Gayer, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Topic: The Effects of the Endangered Species Act on Economic Development - David Haddock, Professor of Law and Economics, Northwestern Univeristy
Topic: Government provision of public bads
Seminar: with Alison Berry - "Bad public goods: The public goods paradox: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?"
Publication: "Warning: Army Corps of Engineers Project Ahead," PERC Reports, Fall 2007 - Randy Rucker, Professor of Economics, Department Agricultural Economics and Econmics, Montana State University
Topic: Indian and Non-Indian Salmon Fisheries: The Economic Effects of U.S. v. Washington
Seminar: "The Alaskan Crab Rationalization Program: Experiences in the First Two Seasons" - Mitch Tobin, Former reporter for the the Arizona Daily Star
Topic: Legislating Noah's Ark: Why the Endangered Species Act is not working. Book draft
Publication: "Save a Species, Save on Taxes," PERC Reports, Fall 2007 - Maria Teresa Vargas, Executive Director, Fundacion Natura Bolivia
Topic: Promoting Markets for Watershed Services in Bolivia: Can the FME Model be Exported?" The Case if Los Negros-Santa Rosa
Seminar: with Nigel Asquith -- "Evaluating intervention policies (e.g. markets for environmental services) in protecting the eEvironment and Reducing Poverty: Shifting focus from measuring and monitoring 'inputs' and 'outputs,' to quantified and replicated measurement of "outcomes." - James Workman Natural Resource Consultant and Founder, Confluence Associates, Botswana,
Seminar: "Michael Milken Meets John Muir: Turning Fixed Liabilities into Liquid Assets"
Publication: "Deadbeat Dams: Perhaps It's Time to Pull the Plug," PERC Reports, Enviropreneur Issue
"How to Fix our Dam Problems," Science and Technology, The University of Texas, Dallas, Fall 2007. - Seth Zuckerman,
Publication: "Unpaved with Good Intentions: New Easements Keep Farmland in Production, Despite Spiraling Property Values," High Country News, Sept. 18, 2006
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