Public-Private Partnerships Amounts To Economic Fascism: A Critique of PERC

This article appeared in an issue of the War Street Journal: Regan, Shawn. 2016. “National Parks: Lost in the wilds of neglect.” April 25; http://www.wsj.com/articles/national-parks-lost-in-the-wilds-of-neglect-1461531553 Shawn Regan is listed as a “Research Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana.” I have long been a critic of PERC (see below). I have castigated it as a Milton Friedman-type outfit, more concerned with being an efficiency expert for the state rather than an advocate of private property rights and free enterprise. Mr. Regan’s recent effort is, unhappily, par for that particular course. I searched in vain for the … Continue reading Public-Private Partnerships Amounts To Economic Fascism: A Critique of PERC