[…] $11 billion. Is there an obvious solution here? National parks are incredibly cheap for such incredible and popular attractions. The most visited parkβGreat Smoky Mountain National Parkβis free and a week-long pass to both Yellowstone and Grand Teton is $50 per vehicle. As a point of comparison, Disneyland starts at $100 per person per […]
PERC and the Pacific Legal Foundation recently filed an amicus brief in support of Maine property owners.
If preserving the species is the goal, free markets and property rights can succeed where regulation and wishful thinking have failed.
[…] driven out of politics.β We couldnβt agree more. Defenders of the status quo should consider whether they are paying the full cost of their public land use, or whether they are free-riding on the U.S. taxpayer. Thereβs a strong economic argument for harnessing markets to manage public lands, but thereβs a moral one as well.
[…] βBaptistsβ want to shut down carbon emitters. In recent years, environmentalists have supported restrictions that, assisted by market forces, have shuttered coal mines, closed or penalized power plants, limited fossil-fuel emissions, and regulated automobiles. Since the 1970s, the environmental Baptists have preferred central government command-and-control regulation and have often argued successfully against the use […]
[…] opposition to the species. More recently, a handful of conservation groups gathered a modest amount of funding to help finance fencing for landowners who want to keep free-roaming Yellowstone bison off their private property. Similarly, the National Wildlife Federation has worked with ranchers and the U.S. Forest Service to develop a program to pay […]
When water runs low, cooperation on the ground makes the most of it for everyone who wants a share.
A decade after colony collapse disorder began, pollination entrepreneurs have staved off the beepocalypse.
The sharing economy has vast potential to reduce environmental impacts by incentivizing property owners to make more efficient use of their cars and homes.
[…] the benefits of clear private property rights, they leave people in limbo about what they have and their rights going forward. This makes it more difficult to plan for the future and shift incentives towards shorter term benefits and away from the longer term. Insecure property rights also make it more difficult for some […]