In 1965, the American economist Kenneth Boulding popularized the phase โSpaceship Earthโ expressing his concern about the fragility of our planet. His logic went something like this: since the Earthโs resources are finite, just as bacteria growing in a Petri dish will eventually exhaust their resources, we too must sooner or later run up […]
The revival of local food and local markets marches under the banner of the left, but its resistance to centralization also appeals to conservatives.
[…] for the black rhino. And as rhino populations in Kenya had fallen drastically due to poaching, the black rhinos in the Masai Mara were among the few free-ranging rhino populations to be found in Kenya. However in the end the developers had their way; the beautiful new camp was built and โ as the […]
[…] effective and nonlethal methods to deter elephants from crops, including using chili-infused string and beehives on top of poles to create low-cost โfencesโ.โ Other non-hunting tactics include planting crops which elephants do not like to eat or burning โchili bombsโ made of elephant dung infused with chili pepper. The problem is that most wildlife, […]
Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rightsย is the first in a series of PERC videos that will document how free market environmentalism solves real-world conservation problems. Donald Leal, PERCโs research director, and Mark Lundsten, a former boat captain on the Bering Sea, combine research and industry experience to describe what happens whenย open-access fishing is replaced […]
ย Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights is the first in a series of PERC videos that will document how Free Market Environmentalism solves real-world conservation problems. Don Leal, PERCโs research director, and Mark Lundsten, a former boat captain on the Bering sea, combine research and real life to tell what happens whenย open access […]
[…] railhead, while the comparable cost for cattle was 1.67 cents. The significant factor in the price difference was the relative ease of trailing cattle long distances quite easily; bison cannot. Ten cowboys could trail 3000 head of cattle. Ten cowboys could hardly herd ten bison to a common point. Cattle were rapidly moving onto […]
[…] including revenues earned, barely reaches 1 percent of the current deficit. Setting precedent to purge excess and unnecessary lands, however, is a worthy goal in itself. It frees the land for private production and reduces government liabilities. It places the assets in hands that can better steward them. Reducing these public land holdings is […]
Professor Dan Benjamin is retiring from Clemson University. As a long-time advocate of free markets, Dan likely underestimates the significance of this loss to the school and, in particular, the John E. Walker Department of Economics. He likely expects the department to find a substitute in the marketplace, perhaps one with lower opportunity costs […]
As has become the tradition, Laura Huggins injects some free market environmentalism wisdom into the national conversation on Earth Day. This year sheโs at it again in the Daily Caller: โGreen activism is often a threat to the very environment that activists are trying to save.โ Instead, she writes, โa better long-term strategy for […]