John A. Baden is founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment

Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment

The Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment , based in Bozeman, Montana, is a think-tank that promotes free-market environmentalism. FREE emphasizes reliance on market mechanisms and private property rights, rather than on environmental regulation, for protection of the environment...

 (FREE) based in Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman is a city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The 2010 census put Bozeman's population at 37,280 making it the fourth largest city in the state. It is the principal city of the Bozeman micropolitan area, which consists...

. FREE's focus is environmental economics

Environmental economics

Environmental economics is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues. Quoting from the National Bureau of Economic Research Environmental Economics program:...

 and policy analysis.

According to a biographical note on FREE's websitem, Baden "was a leader in developing the New Resource Economics, an incentive-based approach to environmental and natural resource management."http://www.free-eco.org/staff_baden.php Baden is associated with the free-market environmentalist movement.

Baden is also a member of the Mont Pelerin Society

Mont Pelerin Society

The Mont Pelerin Society is an international organization composed of economists , philosophers, historians, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favour classical liberalism...

 and the Philadelphia Society, has served two terms on the National Petroleum Council

National Petroleum Council

The National Petroleum Council is an American advisory committee representing oil and natural gas industry views to the Secretary of Energy.The council was established in 1946 at the request of President Harry S. Truman to represent industry views on any matters relating to oil and natural gas...

, and has served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He was co-founder of the Environmental Management M.B.A. program at the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

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In 1977 Baden co-authored Managing the Commonshttp://www.ecobooks.com/commons.htm with Garrett Hardin

Garrett Hardin

Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment"...

, the author of the essay "The Tragedy of the Commons". The book, which is out of print, is a collection of articles exploring the themes raised in Hardin's original essay.

External links

• Baden's bio, from FREE's website
• An extensive list of Baden's columns from 1989 to the present