As noted in the April 24, 2019 Earth Day insight we are presenting the Acton Line podcast: Green New Deal fantasies. Please click the link below if you are interested. https://blog.acton.org/archives/108133-acton-line-podcast-green-new-deal-fantasies-defending-andrew-jackson.html
Read MoreA FREE Policy Salon* FREE supports three values: sustainable ecology, responsible liberty, and modest prosperity. Policy salons are one tool we use to explore and promote these values. The salons involve readings, brief presentations by knowledgeable individuals, and occasional recordings. The key element is discussion before, during and after a lengthy meal. Our most […]
Read MoreFREE began 2017 with a ten-day visit by Romanian economist Prof. Christian Nasulea and Ph. D. student Diana Spinu. They are classical liberals who work on environmental and information technology topics. They share our interest in explaining why “romance lands” attract creative, active individuals with high human capital. This migration of talented, successful individuals is […]
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John and Ramona are in Europe presenting a series of talks on the creation and dissemination of the New Resource Economics, the NRE. They and other professors at MSU developed the NRE approach to environmental policy in the 1970s and as their invitation to speak in Europe indicates, it flourishes today. The NRE emphasizes […]
Read MoreJohn and Ramona are leaving for Europe to present a series of talks on the creation and dissemination of the New Resource Economics, the NRE. They and other professors at MSU developed the NRE approach to environmental policy in the 1970s and as their invitation to speak in Europe indicates, it flourishes today. The NRE emphasizes […]
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Minorities suffer abuses when their rights to property and person are violated. We examined historical situations involving Jews and Mormons in two recent FREE Insights (May 7 and 14). The underlying logic is clear: If people’s property is not given legal protection, then it is cheap and easy to violate their persons and strip their […]
Read MoreGallatin Writers is FREE’s sister organization, created twenty years ago. We wanted to help people allergic to economic thinking understand the ethical and ecological value of economic reasoning to achieving their goals. Here is a key: Respecting liberty and the contributions of prosperity is essential to a good society. Poverty is the worst polluter. Having come to economics […]
Read MoreI welcome several changes in this New Year. And how fortunate we are to live here! On many cultural, commercial, and medical dimensions, life in and around Bozeman is ever better. Yesterday we had over 50 elk on our place. (Fortunately, our haystacks had been trucked off. Herds of elk eat and destroy them. […]
Read MoreThis week’s FREE Insight is a summary of the talk that I gave yesterday (11/5/13) at Harvard and will also present at NYU Law tomorrow (11/7/13). The full paper can be found by clicking here. I find fiduciary trusts attractive arrangements for managing parks and wild lands, especially after October 1. National parks […]
Read MoreWhat we can all learn from the late Ronald Coase about protecting wetlands and wildlife. The recent death of Ronald Coase has given rise to an outpouring of praise about his contributions to the field of economics and his influence on the complex world of institutional politics. In my interactions with Coase, he was always cautious and diffident about […]
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