THIS is my last lecture as a professor at UW. I end my career with the course I began 25 years ago at Indiana University, The Political Economy of Environmental Policy. Throughout my career, I have advocated environmental policies based on incentives, not commands I helped create an environmental paradigm that views economies as ecosystems. […]

AMERICA experienced a major energy crisis in 1978. Ill-conceived federal price controls and OPEC’s last successful petroleum embargo combined to create an emergency. The results were disastrous, the predictable consequence of policies that disrupt the market process and favor special interests In response to this “crisis,” Congress passed the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, commonly […]

COUNTY executives from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties recently sent a letter to the state Legislature asking for a “transportation summit” to address a broad range of issues related to transportation in the Puget Sound region. The proposed two-day summit, tentatively scheduled for June, represents an excellent opportunity to educate legislators and the Regional Transit […]