Should the precautionary principle guide environmental policy? As Dino Falaschetti writes, rather than preventing harm, the precautionary principle can constrain economic opportunity while doing little to improve environmental quality.
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Roads As Economic Development
Roads are a bedrock of the modern world, but recent research suggest that the “roads as economic development” policy deserves careful scrutiny.
The Myth of ‘Bee-pocalypse’ | Stossel
Are bees really vanishing? Watch as PERC’s Wally Thurman busts the myth with John Stossel on the FOX Business Network. As Thurman explains, market forces have kept honey bees buzzing.
Prices, Not Politics Should Allocate Water
Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway demonized water transfers in Southern California as the scam de jure of corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators. Hollywood’s connection to reality is often a tenuous one, and Chinatown is no exception.
Is Tube Travel the Future of Transportation?
by Monica Lucas A transportation technology is now on the radar claiming it could replace airplanes and cut reliance on fossil fuels. ET3, a company focused on making “evacuated tube travel” a reality, has implemented a 20-year timeline within which engineers believe infrastructure could exist to transport commuters from New York to Beijing in twoContinue reading “Is Tube Travel the Future of Transportation?”
Bootleggers and Baptists | LearnLiberty
We all know bootleggers and Baptists rarely see eye to eye. Ask one group and its members will probably tell you they despise the other group. Yet, when it comes to government regulation, both bootleggers and Baptists work together.
Entrepreneurs in Environmental Markets
On the John Batchelor Show, Terry Anderson discusses the important role entrepreneurs play in solving environmental problems. Learn more about how entrepreneurs can lower the transaction costs of using markets to improve environmental quality.
Funding the National Park System for the Next Century
PERC research fellow Shawn Regan provides testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on “Funding the National Park System for the Next Century.”
What’s wrong with the global oil market?
Recent developments in domestic energy production have shifted the political debate about energy independence. Get the facts about energy independence.
Climate Change and Free Markets
If our challenge is “change,” we might do better by turning to America’s strength in financial services rather than its relative inexperience in centrally directing resources.