By Laura Huggins
Editor
Volume 29, No.3, Fall 2011
From the Editor
Opinions
Features
"Green energy" generation is being curtailed, delayed, or prohibited due to competing environmental goals. For example wind turbines are killing endangered bats.
Capitalism's creative solutions for a changing climate
Can market forces balance efficiency-equity tradeoffs in marine fisheries?
New roads create more demand for driving
Columns
Property rights are essential for market exchange. The definition of those rights, their enforcement, and their transferability all help determine the extent of trade and the rate of economic development and wealth creation.
If you are in favor of economic growth, free markets, and less government, join the Green Tea Party and support Kermit the Frog for president.
Perspectives
To keep the water running in LasVegas, recognize scarcity and let water rates rise-- double or even triple. Encourage homeowners to trade water rights. Let the market determine how much water people use, not the water police.
Swiss company donates water purification systems in Kenya earns carbon credits in return, and makes a profit.
If you sue a federal agency and win, the US government will cover your attorney's fees and other litigation expenses.
Founded 30 years ago in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets.
PERC’s publications, each designed to resonate with specific groups, move ideas generated at PERC to broader audiences.
Research is at the heart of PERC's work, with a focus on the question: What is the link between economic growth and environmental quality?
The goal of PERC’s programs is to fully realize the vision of establishing “PERC University,” where scholars, students, policy makers, and others convene to expand the applications of free market environmentalism.
PERC's fellowships share a common goal of exposing new scholars, students, journalists, and policy makers to free market environmentalism, as well as enable scholars already familiar with FME to explore new applications.
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