Archive for Jane S. Shaw

The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy

The extraordinary thing about this excellent book is not its content as much as its source. Jack M. Hollander is a retired professor of energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he has had an impressive career in the field of energy (he has more than 100 publications to his credit), in [...]

6Jul2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Bjørn Lomborg has shaken up the world of environmentalists. Describing himself as “an old left-wing Greenpeace member,” the Danish statistician has produced a book that undermines most of the apocalyptic scares that keep Greenpeace afloat. The Skeptical Environmentalist makes a persuasive case that the environment is improving, not getting worse, and that most of the [...]

30Jun2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • 2000 • 290 pages • $30.00 The authors of Suburban Nation are luminaries in the movement called “the New Urbanism.” Their goal is to stop what they view as the misshapen sprawl around cities, which they consider alienating, destructive of community, and wasteful of land. Suburban Nation [...]

1Jun2001 | Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | Continued

Global Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment

Only a policy wonk could love this book, but its contents are vital for understanding a major change underway in environmental and foreign policy. Ahead of many others, James Sheehan has recognized the growing power of the international environmental movement. Sheehan, who directs international policy activities for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, describes the exercise of [...]

1Aug1999 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Perspective: Understanding Property Rights

This issue of The Freeman focuses on property rights, but not in a heavy, theoretical way. Think of it as a potpourri of information on the subject. You’ll have a chance to read about how property rights quiet squabbling children, how property rights preserved natural resources for Native Americans, and how property rights are routinely [...]

1Feb1997 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

An Environment Without Property Rights

When Eastern Europe began to open up in the late 1980s, one of the great shocks was the severity of its environmental problems. Journalists reported on skies full of smoke from lignite and soft coal, children kept inside for much of the winter because of unsafe air, and horses that had to be moved away [...]

1Feb1997 | and and Richard L. Stroup | 1 comment | Continued

War on the West: Government Tyranny on America’s Great Frontier

Ms. Shaw is senior associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. If the federal government has declared war on the West, as William Perry Pendley contends, we had better pay attention, since the federal government owns so much of it. As Pendley points out, Washington, D.C., manages more than 80 percent of Nevada, [...]

1Jun1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Knowledge and Decisions

Ms. Shaw is a senior associate at PERC in Bozeman, Montana. Physicists tell us that a solid rock is mostly empty space interspersed with occasional dense specks of matter. “In much the same way,” says Thomas Sowell, “specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the [...]

1May1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | Continued

Environmental Protection: The New Socialism?

Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. In 1990, the economist Robert Heilbroner expressed genuine surprise at the collapse of socialism. Writing in The New Yorker, he recalled that in the debates over central planning in the 1930s and 1940s, socialism seemed to have won. A half [...]

1May1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Perspective: Risk, Rights, and Regulation

In her book about medieval Europe, A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman describes a world so dangerous that one or two children died as infants for every three that were born. Death was so likely, she says, that parents invested little emotion in their children during the first five or six years; children were “left to [...]

1Mar1995 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Invisible Value

Jane Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. My father lives in a home that has been in the family for half a century. It is full of heirlooms collected by an earlier generation—crystal glassware, china, Currier & Ives prints, and antique silverplate. My father is trying to figure [...]

1Dec1994 | Jane S. Shaw | 2 comments | Continued

Things Are Better than We Think (And Could Be Better Yet)

Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of the Political Economy Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana. To an objective observer, Americans’ attitudes toward the environment must be puzzling. Many Americans think that our forests are being destroyed by logging, that the world’s natural resources are disappearing, that hundreds of species are going extinct each [...]

1Jun1994 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

The Invisible Hand at Work

Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. A friend of mine recently received an inheritance that appeared large enough to let her quit work. She was then employed as a part-time English teacher and wanted to spend more time with her 1 l-year-old daughter and pursue [...]

1Apr1989 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Private Property and the Environment: Two Views

Editor’s Note: In the May 1988 issue of The Freeman we published John Hospers’ review of Property Rights and Eminent Domain by Ellen Frankel Paul. In the following essays, Jane S. Shaw and John Hospers exchange views on some issues raised in that review. Jane S. Shaw: People concerned about freedom recognize the importance of [...]

1Jan1989 | and and Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | Continued

Helping the Poor

Jane S. Shaw, a senior associate of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Mont., has helped provide free breakfasts and shelter at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City.       This article originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor. Many of us are old enough to remember when, back in the 1960s, [...]

1Aug1988 | Jane S. Shaw | 6 comments | Continued

Lessons from Computers and Helium

Jane S. Shaw is Senior Associate of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, and was formerly Associate Economics Editor at Business Week. In the continuing debate over the proper roles of government and the private sector, advocates of the market sometimes seem to imply that the private sector does no wrong. Of course, [...]

1Sep1987 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Entrepreneurs and Their Gifts

Jane S. Shaw is Senior Associate of the Political Economy Research Center and was previously Associate Economics Editor at Business Week. The Terrapin Station is a new restaurant in the basement of an old hotel in Bozeman, Montana. At the end of a dingy hallway you suddenly come upon a place that’s spiffy and charming, [...]

1Apr1987 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

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