Public Land Policy

• "Western Myths and Realities,"Regulation, (Summer 2002).


• "How to Reform Grazing Policy: Creating Forage Rights on Federal Rangelands,"Fordham Environmental Law Journal, Vol.8,No.3, Symposium 1997.


• "End of the Progressive Era: Toward Decentralization of the Federal Lands."A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate. Ed. Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley. Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1996.


• "Ineffective Laws and Unexpected Consequences: A Brief Review of Public Lands History.," Public Lands and Private Rights: Failure of Scientific Management. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1995.


• "The Subsidized Sagebrush: Why The Privatization Movement Failed," Regulation. July/August 1984


• "Why the Sagebrush Revolt Burned Out." Regulation. May/June 1984


• "The Public Lands," Current Resources in Natural Resource Policy. Ed. Paul R. Portney. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. 1982.

Forest Fires and National Forest Management

• "The Forest Service's Tinderbox." Regulation, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2000).


• "Rethinking Scientific Management: Brand-New Alternatives for a Century-Old Agency." A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service: Goals for the Next Century. Ed. Roger A. Sedjo. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. 2000.


• "Restoring Forest Health and Avoiding Catastrophic Fire on Federal Lands", Testimony to the Task Force on Natural Resources and the Environment, House Budget Committee, September 13, 2000.


• "The Religion of Forestry: Scientific Management", Journal of Forestry, November 1999.


• "The Future of the National Forests." Social Science and Modern Society. Vol.34, No.1. December 1996.


• "The Future of Federal Forest Management: Options for Use of Market Methods.", Federal Land Policy. Ed. Phillip O. Foss. New York: Greenwood Press. 1987.


• "Mythology Instead of Analysis: The Story of Public Forest Management", Forestlands: Public and Private. Ed. Robert T. Deacon, M. Bruce Johnson. San Francisco, CA: Pacific Institutute for Public Policy Research, 1985.

Institutional Economics

• "Free Market Environmentalism: A Brief History and Overview ," September 2001


• "How to Reform Grazing Policy: Creating Forage Rights on Federal Rangelands,"Fordham Environmental Law Journal, Vol.8,No.3, Symposium 1997.
  
• "Private Rights to Government Actions: How Modern Property Rights Evolve", University of Illinois Law Review. Vol. 1986, No.2
  
• "The Economics of Honest Trade Practices", Journal of Industrial Economics. Vol.24, No.4. June 1976

Government Policy Papers

• "An Analysis of Revenues and Costs of Public Land Management by the Interior Department in 13 Western States-Update to 1981", September, 1982.


• "Making Sense of the Sagebrush Rebellion: A Long Term Strategy for the Public Lands", October, 1981.


• "The New Range Wars: Environmentalists versus Cattlemen for the Public Rangelands", 1980.


• "Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public Range Investments: A Case Study", 1976.

Economists and the Making of Public Policy

• The Office of Policy Analysis in the Department of the Interior, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Spring, 1989.


• The Economics Profession and the Making of Public Policy, Journal of Economic Literature, March, 1987.


• Ten Commandments for Policy Economists, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall, 1981.

Private Community Associations

• "New Community Associations for Established Neighborhoods," Review of Policy Research, Vol. 23, No. 6 (2006).


• "From BID's to RID's: Creating 'Residential Improvement Districts." Policy Brief, DeVoe L. Moore Center, Florida State University, April 2006.


• "Home is Where The Rules Are," Washington Post, Outlook Section, December 18, 2005.


• "Transforming Local Government -- Privately," Speech given at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 12, 2005.


• "Local Government as Private Property: Towards the Post-Modern Municipality." Private Property in the 21st Century: The Future of an American Ideal. Ed.Harvey M. Jacobs. Northampton, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 2004


• "The Rise of Private Neighborhood Associations: A Constitutional Revolution in Local Government", The Property Tax, Land Use, and Land Use Regulation. Ed. Dick Netzer. Northampton, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 2003.


• "Collective Private Ownership of American Housing: A Social Revlolution in Local Governance." July 2000.


• "Privatizing the Neighborhood: A Proposal to Replace Zoning with Private Collective Property Rights to Existing Neighborhoods."George Mason Law Review. Vol.7 No.4. Summer 1999.

Zoning and Land Tenure in America

• "Privatizing the Neighborhood: A Proposal to Replace Zoning with Private Collective Property Rights to Existing Neighborhoods."George Mason Law Review. Vol.7 No.4. Summer 1999.


• "Public and Private in the Ownership and Management of Land in the United States.", The Public and the Private in the United States. Japan Center for Area Studies Symposium Series 12. 1999


• "Zoning Myth and Practice---From Euclid into the Future.", Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still to Keep. Ed. Charles M. Haar and Jerold S. Kayden. Washington DC: Planners Press in Association with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 1989.


• "The Privatization of Local Government: From Zoning to RCAs.", Residential Community Associations: Private Governments in the Intergovernmental System? Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. May 1989.


• "Private Rights to Government Actions: How Modern Property Rights Evolve.", University of Illinois Law Review. Vol.1986, No.2.


• "A Private Property Right Theory of Zoning.", The Urban Lawyer: The National Quarterly on Local Government Law. Vol.11, No.4. Fall 1979.

Economics and Religion

• "The Opiate of Almost Everyone," Liberty,. February 2006.


• "Scholasticism versus Pietism: The Battle for the Soul of Economics," Econ Journal Watch. Vol.1 No.3 December 2004.


• "Frank Knight and Original Sin ", The Independent Review. Vol.6 No.1. Summer 2003.


• "What is 'Economic Theology' ", The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Vol.xxv, No.1, New Series 2004, pp.58-79.


• "Book Reviews on Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond ", (Penn State Press, 2001), by Robert Nelson
  
• Symposium Issue on Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond, Case Western Reserve Law Review (Spring 2006).
  
• "Ecological Economics--"In Memoriam: On the Death of the 'Market Mechanism'" ", Ecological Economico.3 (March 1997).


• "Does `Existence Value` Exist?: Environmental Economics Encroaches on Religion ", The Independent Review. Vol.1 No.4.Spring 1997.


• "Annual Review--"Sustainability, Efficiency and God: Economic Values and the Sustainability Debates." ", Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Vol.26, pp. 135054 (1995).

Environmentalism and Religion

• "The Gospel According to Conservation Biology " Quarterly of the Institute for Philolosophy and Public Policy, Vol.27, No. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2007).


• "Man vs. Wild, " Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2007.


• "Earth's Optimal Temperature? " The Faculty Voice, University of Maryland, May 2006.


• "Environmental Religion: A Theological Critique ," Case Western Reserve Law Review. Vol. 55, Num.1, Fall 2004.


• "Environmental Colonialism: `Saving` Africa from Africans," The Independent Review. Vol.8 No.1.Summer 2003.


• "Environmental Calvinism: The Judeo-Christian Roots of Eco-Theology", Taking the Environment Seriously. Ed. Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1993.

American Constitutional Reform

• "Rethinking the American Constitution," Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2006.

Zimbabwe

• Entrance and Lodging Fees in the National Park Systems Options for Zimbabwe, July 2000.


• Private Property Rights to Wildlife: The Southern African Experiment, with Kay Muir-Leresche, University of Zimbabwe, April 2000.