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Free Market Environmentalism and the Tragedy of the Commons

  • Holly Fretwell
  • PERC’s vice president of outreach Holly Fretwell joins The Green Market podcast with CEO of Cedargold Richard Bonugli and Matthew Lesh of the Adam Smith Institute to talk free market environmentalism. They discuss the tragedy of the commons and explore how property rights can be used as an effective tool to address environmental challenges. The growing free market environmentalism movement and the simultaneous pushback by ecosocialists is also discussed.

     

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    • Holly Fretwell
      Holly Fretwell
      • Research Fellow

      Holly Fretwell is a research fellow at PERC, where for more than two decades she has researched public land policy, property rights, and markets.

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