Terry Anderson and Bryan Leonard discuss the economics of managing international fisheries in their article Fish of Fence? Sovereign-to-Sovereign Relations in High Seas Fisheries. The abstract and article are available online.
The House of Representatives and Executive Branch disagree on the federal role for marine natural resource policies. Doc Hastings Chairs the House Committee on Natural Resources and lists the new bureaucratic layers established by...
If you owned a river, how would you manage it? You could let it flow freely and naturally and feel at peace with the world. But nature has some rough edges and in times...
Welfare state programs and business regulations distorted the immigration process for California in ways very different from Texas. Texas government policies are more open to enterprise and its booming economy is putting latin american...
Imagine a World in the State of Texas… Notes from a talk given to the New York City Junto. To illustrate that the world is not in any meaningful way overpopulated, Julian Simon, author...
California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency. Political emergencies give governments additional power to regulate, coerce, and otherwise make people change behavior. California government agencies want people to use less water until the...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. – William Blake, Auguries of Innocence...
Marine natural resources like other natural resources have multiple uses. Coastlines and offshore lands can be left alone, or can be developed for housing, fishing, recreation and other uses. Offshore lands can be improved...
by Gregory F. Rehmke “This movement should create a situation in which authorities will control empty stores, but not the market; the employment of workers, but not their livelihood; the official media, but not...
George C. Scott brought Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge to life in the 1990s on a television special. Scott played Scrooge as a competent and thoughtful businessman who finds both Christmas and philanthropy a waste of time...
