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Ronald Coase showed how free markets help the environment

The death this week of Ronald Coase, one of the world’s most-cited economists, comes at a time when there is lively debate about the very issue he raised: why neither markets nor government are panaceas.

Published on: September 5, 2013

Thank you, Ronald Coase

Nobel laureate Ronald Coase has passed away at the age of 102. Coase’s work provided the intellectual foundation on which free market environmentalism is built.

Published on: September 3, 2013
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A Stimulating Deliberation

[…] integrate the many thoughtful papers, articles, and discussions presented and engaged in by the impressive array of scholars and practitioners assembled in Bozeman this past week.   Freely associating memories and impressions, I am swept up in the thoughts and writings, not only of Terry Anderson and his PERC colleagues, but also Daniel Botkin, […]

Published on: August 20, 2013
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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.

Published on: August 2, 2013

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.”

Published on: July 24, 2013

What’s wrong with the global oil market?

[…] production five percent in December 2012 led oil prices for February delivery to climb 72 cents per barrel. Monopolies drive up prices and lower productivity and misallocate resources. One study estimated the cost of OPEC to the U.S. economy was as much as $500 billion in 2008. The price volatility caused by OPEC harms American interests […]

Published on: July 23, 2013
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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.

Published on: July 19, 2013

Q&A with Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes on Why Legal Rhino Horn Trade Will Save Rhinos

[…] done (and could eventually devastate rhino populations)? That debate really intensified this week when the South African government gave its strongest indication yet of the route it plans to take: the country’s environment minister announced that South Africa would back “the establishment of a well-regulated international trade” in rhino horn and seek permission for a oneoff […]

Published on: July 17, 2013