Rick was one of the first professors I met at MSU.  Generous with his time and counsel, he greatly influenced my career.   And it was a treat to teach with Rick.  Here is the beginning of a fifty-year friendship with a fine scholar.

I met Rick in 1969 while teaching economic anthropology at Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana.  Mine was a visiting appointment because IU awarded my PhD.  Thus, I needed a new university position.  Rick helped me accomplish that goal at MSU. 

Ranching with, but not for Money: Enjoying Liberty, Ecology and Prosperity

Correcting a Stereotype of Newcomers to Montana

Enjoying a Montana Festival: The 42nd Annual Hyline Angus Bull Sale at the Headwaters Arena

Enjoying the Messiah in Australia: Technological Blessings of the Christmas Holiday 

Ramona and I have a long tradition of attending Bozeman's Messiah Community Sing.  We find it especially satisfying to share it with Christian and Jewish friends and we always adjourn to a fine dinner.   This satisfying package of blessings was not available this year.

Climate Change in Paradise 

I recently spoke to eighteen Article III federal judges.  They gathered at Sage Lodge, Pray, Montana to join a colloquium organized by the Law and Economics Center (LEC) of George Mason University.  This highly respected organization was founded in 1974 to bring economic understanding to the study of law.   By 1999 over 40 percent of all federal judges had attended at least one of these George Mason Law School programs and the number grows each year.

Ecology and Economics for Religious Leaders   

 Mule Deer Buck in John and Ramona's wheat field

CELEBRATING PERC’s 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Coronavirus’s Earth Day Threat

In 1970 I helped organize the first Earth Day at Indiana University.  The initial Earth Day was a “youth quake”.  Working out of the University of Wisconsin, a staff of 85 people mobilized some ten million American college students.  The event mixed protest and celebration.