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Originally published in Environmental Policy in the Anthropocene (PERC, 2016). Download this full chapter here. Even without knowing what environmental changes the Anthropocene will bring, we can consider what types of institutions will support effective policy in response to those environmental changes. In this chapter, we look to the public economics literature to see what itContinue reading “Environmental Policy for the Anthropocene: Information, Incentives, and Effective Institutions”

Originally published in Environmental Policy in the Anthropocene (PERC, 2016). Download this full chapter here. Writing in 1990, Daniel Botkin observed that since the beginning of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s, a core mission of environmental policymakers has been the restoration of the balance of nature. The laws and regulations intended to achieveContinue reading “Designing Institutions for the Anthropocene”

Originally published in Environmental Policy in the Anthropocene (PERC, 2016). Download this full chapter here. In 1986, James Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in economics for changing the way we think about politics. Buchanan’s key insight was that economists should use the same tools and methods to analyze political behavior as they do to understandContinue reading “Environmentalism Without Romance”