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It’s OK to Print this Post for Earth Day

So says PERC’s Laura Huggins today over at Advancing a Free Society. Laura’s piece emphasizes one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

Published on: April 21, 2011
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2011 PERC Fellows

[…] Conservation Easements for Ecosystem Services Harrison Zeff University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill hbz5000@gmail.com Topic: Financial Tools to Improve Water Allocation During Droughts Media Fellows Brendan Borrell Freelancer bborrell@nasw.org Topic: Rangeland Health on public vs. private land John Koppisch Forbes magazine jkoppisch@forbes.com Topic: Native American Economies Andrew Wilson The Weekly Standard, American Spectator abwilson@swbell.net […]

Published on: April 21, 2011

Playing Chicken with the Department of Ag

[…] hour commute to buy a bird for dinner. Josh processes his chickens on his farm under a legal exemption allowing him to avoid industrial (and expensive) processing plants. Each chicken he produces is clearly labeled as to origin, method of production, added ingredients (none), as well as citing the statute, which allows him to […]

Published on: April 20, 2011

Basic economics can preserve the environment

[…] theme was that the world was in danger of running out of key natural resources perhaps as soon as the year 2000. The 1972 Limits to Growth study, for example, predicted that the world would run out of gold, zinc, mercury, and oil before 1992;vi the U.S. government’s 1980 Global 2000 report predicted that […]

Published on: April 20, 2011
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Free Market Environmentalism on Campus

Last week I joined Andy Nash on InsideAcademia.tv for a short discussion on “Sustainability and Free Market Environmentalism.” The video is now available online. Thanks to Andy for a great discussion.

Published on: April 18, 2011
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U.S. can’t afford to scrap nuclear power

[…] they cost too much and because they are available only intermittently, when the wind blows or the sun shines. Nor are renewable technologies free of environmental problems: plans for solar arrays in the desert have been blocked over concern for endangered species habitat and wind turbines are deadly for bats and birds. Hydro cannot […]

Published on: April 7, 2011

Should the government regulate the environment?

PERC’s executive director Terry Anderson will debate the subject with Gregory Morris, the director of the Green Power Institute and Future Resources Associates, on Thursday afternoon at Santa Clara University. The event is free and open to the public. Details are here. For a flyer, click here.

Published on: April 4, 2011

PERC and Grist?

Yes, you read it right! Shawn Regan’s article, “Debunking myths about free-market environmentalism” appeared on Grist. If you missed his piece be sure to read it and comment!

Published on: March 28, 2011
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Debunking myths about free-market environmentalism

[…] transaction costs. As Coase later wrote, “What my argument does suggest is the need to introduce positive transaction costs explicitly into economic analysis so that we can study the world that exists.” Despite the claim that his theory is “mathematical,” Coase’s work lacks even a single equation. Coase’s ideas are about reality, not theoretical […]

Published on: March 27, 2011