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Fishing With Property Rights

ITQs eliminate the race-to-fish atmosphere plaguing fisheries. With a secure right to a specific amount of fish each year, each fisherman can focus on harvesting that amount of fish as inexpensively as possible and at a time when it should bring the highest value.

Excellence in Teaching Economics

The Foundation for Teaching Economics has honored Terry Anderson with the Gary Walton Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics. The successes of free market environmentalism are a testament to a career of fostering the economic way of thinking.

Conflicting Approaches to Saving Mother Earth

Why are traditional environmentalists and free market environmentalists still two distinct groups, often pitted against each other in an effort to help the environment?

Indonesia Under Fire

Forest fires are raging across Southeast Asia, in what is being called “the biggest environmental crime of the twenty-first century.” A lack of property rights is partly to blame for the smoke and fires that plague the area.

Who should control “the environment”?

Global environmentalism can be daunting, but people working in their own backyard are able to address the root causes of environmental problems.

Environmentalism as “Everythingism”

Environmentalism requires complete information not only about the economy but about the ecology of every species of living thing.

Market Magic: Hunt Lions to Save Lions

Every time hunting is banned, we end up with fewer animals. From lions and bison, to marine fisheries, John Stossel interviews Terry Anderson about property rights approaches to species conservation.