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Do Environmental Agencies Actually Help The Environment?

  • Dominic Parker
  • PERC Senior Fellow Nick Parker joined The Curious Task podcast to discuss environmental regulation and his 2024 paper with Dean Lueck entitled “The Economic Origins And Extent Of America’s First Environmental Agencies.”

    In the paper, the authors study America’s oldest environmental bureaucracies—U.S. state wildlife agencies—from their inception during America’s age of wildlife extermination to their manifestation as modern administrative agencies.

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    • Dominic Parker
      Dominic Parker
      • Senior Fellow

      Dominic (Nick) Parker is a PERC senior fellow and the Anderson-Bascom professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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