January 27th, 2003 - Open Knowledge

07:43 pm - Markets and the Environment: Friends or Foes?

If I were still in the bay area, I'd like to go to this:

Wednesday, January 29, 2003
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Brass Rail, Benson Memorial Center-basement, Santa Clara University

Refreshments will be provided

Hope you can make it!

Directions to and map of SCU at the end of this e-mail

The Civil Society Institute Lectures on Globalization and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Present

Terry Anderson

Markets and the Environment: Friends or Foes?

Wednesday, January 29, 2003,
5:30 - 7:00
Brass Rail, Benson Memorial Center, Basement
Santa Clara University

After three decades of command-and-control environmental regulations, pragmatic environmentalists are searching for more effective tools. With its focus on incentives, free market environmentalism shows how markets can be harnessed to improve resource stewardship and environmental quality. Terry Anderson will survey the history of command and control and contrast it with real-world examples illustrating the potential for free market environmentalism.

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