The Environmental Challenge to Growth

  Economics began as a branch of moral philosophy.  Its founders, including Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, focused on social ethics.  Economics gradually became more formal and mathematical.  Physics became the ideal for economists to emulate, a systematic field divorced from moral content.   Ever more abstract and divorced from the culture that guides and […]

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 Free the American West

Free the American West

Like much else in government, U.S. public land policy is a vestige of the past, established in 1910 when America’s population was just 92.2 million and a Western state such as Nevada had only 81,000 residents. Today our needs are much different and much greater. The United States can no longer afford to keep tens […]

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