All Research:
Water Conservation
ECO:nomics
Changes in the environment, population, and industry have created water scarcity in some areas. Terry L. Anderson the President of The Property and Environment Research Center and Gretchen W. McClain the CEO of Xylem discuss how society can meet these water challenges.
Ecosystem Services: Water Markets
This podcast provides a quick overview of ecosystem services and the potential for water markets – featuring Director of Applied Programs Reed Watson and PERC Enviropreneur Alum Jamie Workman. https://www.perc.org/sites/default/files/media/Water%20Markets.mp3
Risky business in Indian Country
Tribes that can resist the temptation to extract wealth at the expense of future growth have the best hope of overcoming poverty and becoming truly sovereign.
Economic Change in Indian Country
PERC sat down with Richard Todd and Susan Woodrow of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis to discuss community development and the economic future in Indian Country. Click here to learn more about PERC’s research on American Indians.
The Right to Own Property on Reservations
Dubbed the “First Nations Property Ownership Act,” the legislation would allow Canadian bands (tribes as they are known in the United States) to vote on whether to give individual Indians the right to own their land as private property.
Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development: December 2012
A workshop to explore the relationship between liberty and property rights from a historical perspective, focusing especially on how these rights have been employed by and have impacted Native Americans
Property Rights for Indian Economies
Terry Anderson discusses how private property rights could improve reservation economies on “Voices of Montana” with Aaron Flint. “Voices of Montana” is the first truly statewide daily radio talk show that Montana has ever had. Every weekday morning at 9:06AM, with the cooperation of over a dozen affiliated radio stations, this program finally makes it possibleContinue reading “Property Rights for Indian Economies”
The Other Bakken Boom
In this PERC Case Study, Sierra Crane-Murdoch explores the challenges facing a tribe atop the nation’s biggest oil play. While mineral owners off the reservation have earned thousands of dollars for each acre leased, most allottees within have earned only a few hundred.
The Right to Own Property on Reservations
PERC President Terry Anderson points out that American Indians and First Nations people can reach back into their rich cultural heritage and find institutions that rewarded individual initiative. The key key is for tribes to take this initiative again and for Congress to give tribal nations the rights that were once theirs.