Terry Anderson on the Environment and Property Rights

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🗓️ 18 August 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Terry Anderson, Distinguished Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about free-market environmentalism, the dynamics of the Yellowstone ecosystem, and how property rights can protect natural resources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:32.2	Today is August 1, 2014, and my guest is Terry Anderson, distinguished senior fellow at
0:38.6	the Property and Environment Research Center and Senior Fellow at Stanford University's
0:42.5	Hoover Institution.
0:43.5	It's the author of numerous books on environmental issues and is one of the founders of the free
0:48.0	market environmentalism movement.
0:50.3	Terry, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:52.5	My pleasure, Russ, great to be with you.
0:54.9	So you are one of the founders, as I said, of what is called the free market environmentalism.
1:00.0	You wrote a book with that title, Co-authored it.
1:03.2	Back in I think 1991, and it's being revised and it's going to come out soon, what distinguishes
1:09.0	your approach, the free market approach from other ways of dealing with environmental
1:13.4	issues?
1:14.4	Yes, you're right, Russ.
1:16.6	It was the book, free market environmentalism was published in 1991.
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