Volume 29, No.3, Fall 2011 Archives

Volume 29, No.3, Fall 2011

Lone Mountain Fellowships offer a unique opportunity for scholars, policymakers, and
environmentalists to advance our understanding of the role of markets and property
rights in promoting environmental quality. This issue of PERC Reports highlights the
work of some of these scholars.

From Green Energy Revolution to Green Gridlock

Brian Steed

"Green energy" generation is being curtailed, delayed, or prohibited due to competing environmental goals. For example wind turbines are killing endangered bats.

How Will We Adapt to Climate Change?

Matthew E. Kahn

Capitalism's creative solutions for a changing climate.

Designing Rights-Based Fisheries Programs

Kurt Schnier

Can market forces balance efficiency-equity tradeoffs in marine fisheries?

Road Congestion and Its Implications for Transportation Policy

Matthew Turner

New roads create more demand for driving.

Little Green Lies

Jeff Bennett

The truth revealed: Environmental bluffs miss big picture

Property Rights in Land

Daniel Benjamin

Property rights are essential for market exchange. The definition of those rights, their enforcement, and their transferability all help determine the extent of trade and the rate of economic development and wealth creation.

Fishing for An Answer

Linda Platts

An innovative new solution to a growing global problem. How one man's answer to over fishing is going vertical.

Green loans

Linda Platts

Micro finance offering loans to green business start-ups

Carbon for Water

Linda Platts

Swiss company donates water purification systems in Kenya earns carbon credits in return, and makes a profit.

Paying the bill for environmental litigation

Reed Watson

If you sue a federal agency and win, the US government will cover your attorney's fees and other litigation expenses.

PERC’s Lone Mountain Fellows are an impressive group

Laura Huggins

This special issue is dedicated to PERC’s Lone Mountain Fellows who are as impressive as Lone Mountain (featured on the cover), which towers over PERC at 11,166 feet.

Comments on PERC Reports Summer 2011

A Solution in Search of a problem Thanks to Spencer Banzhaf for his article, “The Case for Cap-and-Trade” as a market application to fossil fuel…

A market-ready solution for Las Vegas water

Andrew Wilson

To keep the water running in LasVegas, recognize scarcity and let water rates rise-- double or even triple. Encourage homeowners to trade water rights. Let the market determine how much water people use, not the water police.

Kermit for president and PERCies for his cabinet

Terry Anderson

If you are in favor of economic growth, free markets, and less government, join the Green Tea Party and support Kermit the Frog for president.