To protect the bison in Yellowstoe from slaughter when they leave the park seeking winter forage, some private environmental group with an entrepreneurial plan should reward landovers who providing grazing room.
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“Big Meat” and Big Government
Government subsidies, overregulation and the consolidation has significantly altered the meat industry, makingit less competitive, loaded wiht paperwork, difficult for small ranchers to survive.
California’s Crazy Climate
Originally appeared in Defining Ideas: A Hoover Institute Journal on February 9, 2011 In 2006, the California Legislature enacted AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act that directed greenhouse gas emissions in the state to be at their 1990 level by 2020. To get a sense of what that means for the state, in 2006,Continue reading “California’s Crazy Climate”
New drilling method opens vast oil fields in US
A new drilling technology is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States. This new drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 percent over the next five years. And within 10 years, it could help reduce oil imports by more than half.
Bootleggers and Baptists in Retrospect
PERC Senior Fellow Bruce Yandle orginated the theory of Bootleggers and Baptists in the early 1980s. In essence, two different groups suppor the same, regulations, but benefit from different effects of the regulation. Has anything changed?
China’s growing wealth and economic power
bodes well for the US
China’s growing wealth and economic power means it also vested in seeing the US propser as it holds a huge amount of US debt and remains an important trading partner.
Market Solution for our Water Wars
Where water markets are being allowed to work, prices reflect scarcity and trades provide incentives to conserve.
Using economic incentives to connect U.S. forests, water, and communities
Todd Gartner, a 2007 Enviropreneur Institute alum, describes how economic incentives can be used to connect forests, water, and communities. Working with the World Resources Institute he discusses his work on two pilot projects that are connecting the buyers of ecosystem services with the sellers of the services.
Bootleggers, Baptists, and Political Entrepreneurs
PERC Senior Fellow Randy Simmons and co-authors expand on the Bootleggers and Baptits theory of inefficient government regualtion by addding the political entrepeneur to the mix.
Julian Simon’s theories are alive and well
By Linda Platts PERC Fellows along with many other natural resource economists congratulate New York Times science writer and columnist John Tierney for winning a wager that took five years to resolve. It resembles the famous 1980 bet between economist Julian Simon and ecologist Paul Ehrlich about the future price of natural resources. Tierney plans toContinue reading “Julian Simon’s theories are alive and well”