Rocky Mountain News
July 9, 2005
By C. Kenneth Orski and Jane S. Shaw
Government
Headwaters NewsJanuary 5, 2005 By Randy T. Simmons
Land Letter
October 28, 2004
By Allison A. Freeman
Land Letter reporter
By Bruce Yandle, Andrew P. Morriss, and Lea-Rachel Kosnik
RS-02-3: 2002By Bruce Yandle, Andrew P. Morriss, and Lea-Rachel Kosnik
Read Chapter 9:All Play and No Pay: The Adverse Effects of Welfare Recreation
By Seth NortonFull Text HTML
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Violation of Property Rights at Root Of DDT Disaster, Say PERC Scholars
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By Roger E. Meiners and Andrew Morriss
Greening of Foreign Policy Distorts Traditional Diplomacy
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By Terry L. Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell/p>
June 21, 2000Testimony to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and WaterBy David Gerard PERC Research Associate
Jonathan Adler
Arlington, Virginia
Ryan Amacher, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
University of Texas, Arlington
Orange County RegisterOctober 12, 1999Fear Bigger Governments,Not Bigger Populations
By Richard L. Stroup and Matthew Brown
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Private land trusts are proliferating around the nation as ways of preserving environmental values. So why not a federal land trust to manage the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah?
The Market Meets the EnvironmentEconomic Analysis of Environmental PolicyBruce Yandle Editor
The Mining Law of 1872:Digging a Little Deeper
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Water Marketing--The Next GenerationTerry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, Editors
By Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
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Superfund:The Shortcut That Failed
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By Richard L. Stroup
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Property Rights Legislation in the States:A Review
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By Hertha L. Lund
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Sovereign Nations or Reservations?An Economic History of American IndiansBy Terry L. Anderson
Public Lands and Private Rights:The Failure of Scientific ManagementBy Robert H. Nelson
Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Laura E. Huggins, and Thomas Michael Power
Terry Anderson took on the Department of Interior during a Fox News segement called "Cabinet Wrecking Ball." Appearng Friday, March 19 on Scoreboard with David Asman, Terry says that the Department of Interior holds billions of dollars in assets in our national
A PERC Workshop with scholars presenting papers on on land use conflicts in the West and raising questions about the governing institutions.
California is criminalizing recreational behavior in the state parks, writing tickets for the likes of rafting wihtout a life jacket and a dip without a suit. The fines they collect help fill the state coffers.
Stimulus spending for green jobs is short sighted. The solar panels produced can make electricty for less, but will eventually cost more to replace.
Government subsidies, overregulation and the consolidation has significantly altered the meat industry, makingit less competitive, loaded wiht paperwork, difficult for small ranchers to survive.
As PERC’s Rick Stroup often says, “Efficiency has no constituency,” and that’s certainly true of environmental policy. The federal government is replete with inefficiencies resulting from overlapping, redundant, and wasteful spending programs.
PERC senior fellow Randy Simmons writing on the sequester as an exercise in the Washington Monument strategy.
The authors explore the history of eminent domain in the United States—a history characterized by periodic public backlash.
The rise of national markets associated with national TV networks led to the expansion of federal social regulation and a simultaneous decline of federal economic regulation.
Features
At a time when there’s a spotlight on America’s richest 1%, a look at the country’s 310 Indian reservations—where many of America’s poorest 1% live—can be more enlightening.
By Jane S. Shaw and Bruce Yandle
With his 2006 budget, President Bush appears to be championing fiscal responsibility. For environmental policy, this change offers hope for new directions.
The shadowy "precautionary principle" is stopping progress and distorting priorities.
Eight great myths about waste disposal still abound. This article refutes them.
Matching the size of government to the size of the problem
Columns
March 2007Volume 25 | Number 1
ECONOMIST, n. a scoundrel whose faulty vision sees things as they reall are, not as they ought to be. - after Ambrose Bierce
A scholarly article supports Environmental Protection Agency regulation of air pollutants.
A study of Wyoming oil drilling reveals that regulatory costs are higher on federal land.
A major study of the Clean Air Act confirms that -- as businesses often claim -- the costs are high.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Government-sponsored polar
expeditions made fewer
major discoveries
introduced fewer
innovations, lost more ships,
and had more explorers die.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Given the racket that people raise
over airport noise, one would think
that the social benefits of regulating
airport noise must be great.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
EPA cleanups of superfund sites
cost an average of $12 billion
for every cancer case prevented.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Now we know what a decade of
quotas on Japanese cars cost consumers.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Late 19th-century storm warnings
from the U.S. Weather Service
yielded substantial, positive
net returns to society.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
People are knowledgeable
about the hazards faced
by individuals in
their age group.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
More than half of
the increased market share
of light trucks stems from
government regulation.
By Daniel K. Benjamin
Insecure property rights
induce trespassers and
forest owners to cut
tress on short rotations
and not to replant.
Perspectives
A proponent of wind power takes on Thomas Tanton's article from December, and Tanton replies.
If you sue a federal agency and win, the US government will cover your attorney's fees and other litigation expenses.
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