Fellow, Environmental Studies and Business and Economic Studies

Hoover Institution and Executive Director, PERC
2048 Analysis Dr Ste A
Bozeman MT 59718
406/587-9591 -  tla@perc.org

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Terry Anderson is the executive director of PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center, a non-profit institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through markets; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and professor emeritus at Montana State University.

His work helped launch the idea of “free market environmentalism” with the publication of his book by that title, coauthored with Donald Leal. Anderson is the author or editor of 30 books. These include Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1997), also coauthored with Leal, Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law, coedited with Fred S. McChesney (Princeton University Press 2003), and The Not So Wild, Wild West, coauthored with P. J. Hill (Stanford University Press 2004).

He has published widely in both professional journals and the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fly Fisherman. Anderson received his B.S. from the University of Montana in 1968 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 1972, after which he began his teaching career at Montana State University where he won several teaching awards. Anderson is an avid outdoorsman and a skilled bow hunter with a passion for hunting in Africa.

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