Richard Stroup reflects on his time at the Department of the Interior trying to explain the key role of property rights in protecting environmental resources. In this short essay Dr. Stroup discusses the Audubon...
If you care about fish and the health of fisheries, or even just debating about fisheries, here is a book to put high on your summer reading list. University of Washington aquatic and fishery...
http://reason.org/files/50500045c1add5dc6b89e04ace6e57c3.pdf
Excerpt below… highly recommended for overview of economics of marine natural resources. I invited the author to give a talk at an Economic Thinking or Independent Institute debate workshop, however he is now senior...
Consider that people gain ownership of a resource by the work it takes to create value, that is by mixing productive labor with land. A farmer’s labor with fences and plowing land sets boundaries...
by Marina Tanase (December, 2008) During the communist times Romanians who could, who dared, looked for ways to escape. There are as many stories as escape attempts. Each can impress upon readers the dangers those...
Introduction to The Economics of Space Exploration Gregory F. Rehmke Good public policy analysis requires perspective. Research on space exploration should include more than today’s facts, policies, and proposals. Further readings in the political and technological...
Very interesting WSJ article on U.S. transportation infrastructure. Billions are being invested upgrading U.S. railroads, including various new technologies. The federal government has little involvement in this upgrade. Railroad, apart from Amtrak, are privately...
Free Enterprise Space Exploration from the 1990s and before… Martian Chronicle Mars may well be the next great frontier. But what kind of world should we make there? And John Tierney’s 1996 NYT article: How...
Paul Krugman asks: “But can anyone deny that more drivers means more traffic congestion?” Okay, let’s think about that. Do more bicyclers mean more bicycle congestion, or more bike lanes and trails? Do more...
