Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT
Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment by Richard Stroup
Cato Institute, Washington DC, 2003
This slim volume, written by PERC Senior Associate Richard L. Stroup, offers a readable and accessible explanation of how ecological problems can be resolved privately and voluntarily. The four chapters of the 91-page monograph each address 10 key principles about economics, property, and environmental policy, providing a framework for developing sound environmental policy. The publication is patterned after another highly successful book, What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity, written by James D. Gwartney and Richard Stroup, which has been translated into 15 languages. Similarly, Eco-nomics is a perfect candidate for foreign translations through Atlas’s international network. Its message crosses all cultures in its straight forward observations about human action and the environment. As one Fisher Awards judge commented, ‘In public policy debates there is very often a bias against economic reasoning. Many believe that the economic point of view is nothing other than defending the interests of rich people and capitalists. The careful reader of Eco-nomics will learn that this is not the case. He should learn that economics and ecology are the same sides of the same coin.’
Centro de Investigaciones Econmico Nacionales, Guatemala
Lineamientos de Politica Economica y Social 2004-2007
Centro de Investigaciones Economico Nacionales, Guatemala, 2004
Special Award for Original Publication in Spanish
In 2004, for the second year in the row, Atlas Economic Research Foundation presented a special Fisher Award for Original Publication in Spanish. The Guatemalan think tank Centro de Investigaciones Economico Nacionales was recognized for its publication, Lineamientos de Politica Economica y Social 2004-2007. This guide to current public policy and economic issues in Guatemala was distributed to newly-elected governments in Guatemala, so they are exposed to possible market-oriented solutions. First published in 1990 with updated versions created in 1995, 1999, and now 2004 Lineamientos is based firmly on the ideas of individual liberty, private property, and a market economy operating under the rule of law.
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