PERC Senior Fellow P.J. Hill joins Garrett on the Cardinal Institute’s Forgotten America podcast to discuss free-market environmentalism and the property rights framework he uses to evaluate conservation issues. P.J. also provides an overview of the American West’s history and debunks the myth of the “wild west.”
P.J. Hill is a senior fellow at PERC, a professor emeritus of economics at Wheaton College, and a third-generation Montana cattle rancher.
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