Three decades ago I moved from teaching at Indiana University for a position at Montana State. At MSU, I helped create a small institute. While that program was a causality of university politics, its participants prospered. More importantly, its ideas triumphed. Our goal was to fundamentally change the way opinion leaders thought about protecting and […]
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Second Edition, Indiana University Press, 1998, John A. Baden, contributing author and editor (with Douglas S. Noonan). This is a new edition of a pioneering work on the origins, developments, and recent innovations in the debate on managing commonly-owned lands and resources. It includes both new and updated essays which focus on alternate institutional approaches […]
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At each summer’s end, I leave our Montana ranch and return to Washington. I love to drive the West. This is a good time to reconsider our culture, ecology, economy and politics. Increasingly, I’m having second thoughts about these subjects. Many friends, academics, business people and environmentalists, are also re-evaluating their approach to environmental goals. […]
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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. […]
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THIS is my last column until I return from Montana next autumn. While there, I’ll continue working on the three E’s of environmental policy: ecology, economics and ethics. Only systems that link freedom to act with responsibility for the results of the action work well in dealing with them. Others fail. Linking action with accountability […]
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1995 will be the silver anniversary of Earth Day. This will be a significant event, for it marks a full generation since we formally recognized our environment’s fragility and value. To celebrate the anniversary, I suggest that we begin a campaign to buy Siberia. This would be America’s Earth Day present to the world. Buying […]
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THE election of Governor Clinton and Senator Gore alerts us to a new environmental movement. They claim to be seeking innovative and efficient ways to achieve environmental goals. For the past 20 years such an alternative approach has been developed. It may at last receive the attention in Washington that it has earned in universities […]
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Press, 1983, John A. Baden and Richard L. Stroup.Available through Amazon Books.
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