By Laura Huggins | The connection between the fields of economics and ecology
Volume 31, No.1, Winter 2013
From the Editor
Features
By G. Tracy Mehan III | The wilderness illusion and environmental realism
By Ronald Bailey | Assessing humans' role in nature and the reality of wilderness
By Matt Ridley | Paradoxically, economics has done more for nature than ecology has.
By Daniel Botkin |
Ideology and politics too often get in the way
Web Exclusives
By Shawn Regan | That there are moose in Yellowstone today tells us something about nature and our role in it.
Columns
By Terry L. Anderson | Step away from the blackboard
By Reed Watson | Federal flood water intrudes on private property
Perspectives
By Holly Fretwell | Greener Pastures
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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