摘要:My migration to PERC was a generation in the making. In the mid-1990s, working for a Florida think tank founded by an up-and-coming policy junkie named Jeb Bush, I was struggling to find an approach to conservation issues that would appeal to those who loved nature and the outdoors but understood there were limitations to government solutions. What came across my desk one day was more newsletter than magazine: a black-and-white pamphlet with a splash of green called PERC Reports . It might not have been much to look at, but the ideas and articles resonated. This little organization in faraway Montana, then known as the Political Economy Research Center, was advancing a unique approach to conservation. And that approach was free market environmentalism.