Economics Meets the Environment
Bruce YandleA personal reflection on the PERC experience.
The Magazine of Free Market Environmentalism
This special issue of PERC Reports honors our 40th anniversary. It reflects on PERC's ideas and the influence they've had on conservation, economics, policy, and environmentalism broadly. But as much as it celebrates the past, it looks toward the future—to new opportunities and challenges, and to creative ways to apply free market environmentalism in the 21st century.
Environmental markets have revolutionized the way economists and environmentalists address pollution problems.
Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems.
With clearly defined rights to their shared and invisible natural assets, fishermen and irrigators alike reverse a race to the bottom.
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be hopeful about the future of the planet.
Examples of free market environmentalism in action.
Better incentives will motivate efforts to rid western landscapes of lingering pollution.
How PERC’s ideas are improving federal land management.
Liberty, environmental quality, and the quest for the frontier.