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FREE advances conservation and environmental
values by applying modern science and America’s founding ideals
to policy debates. We are intellectual entrepreneurs, explaining
how economic incentives, secure property rights, the rule of law,
and responsible prosperity can foster a healthy environment.
FREE conducts conferences, writes and edits books, and publishes opinion columns and journal articles. We use economics and scientific analysis to generate and explore innovative solutions to environmental problems. Our target audiences are important decision makers and opinion leaders. Currently, we are focused on federal judges, state supreme court justices, law professors, religious leaders, and social entrepreneurs.
While our conferences are explicitly pro-environment,
they explain why ecological values are not the only important ones.
We stress that trade-offs among competing values are inescapable.
We show why it is ethically and materially irresponsible to pretend
such choices can be avoided.
All of our programs share the following objectives:
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to describe how incentives and voluntary
cooperation can be used to protect and enhance environmental
values while fostering economic prosperity |
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to show how the application of economics and
science to public policy provides insights that advance the
public interest |
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to explain the importance of secure property
rights and economic freedom to the efficient and sensitive use
of environmental resources |
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to examine the dangers of legislating "risk-free"
laws and make explicit the linkages among science, risk analysis,
and economics |
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