John A. Baden is founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), and Gallatin Writers, Inc. FREE's focus is environmental economics and policy analysis. Gallatin works with writers of the West. Both are 501 (c)(3) organizations with offices in Bozeman, Montana.

Dr. Baden received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969 and then was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in environmental policy. Dr. Baden is a leader in developing the New Resource Economics, an incentive based approach to environmental and natural resource management. He has held endowed professorships, received teaching awards and is the author or contributing editor of seven books and numerous articles on energy and natural resources. He is an occasional contributor to the Wall Street Journal's editorial page and publishes a syndicated column with Knight Ridders' Bridge News. Dr. Baden is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, has served two terms on the National Petroleum Council, 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. Dr. Baden and his wife, Professor Ramona Marotz-Baden, both avid bicyclists, own and operate a ranch in the Gallatin Valley of Montana and an orchard in the Yakima Valley of Washington.

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FREE advances conservation and environmental values by applying modern science and America's founding ideals to policy debates. They are intellectual entrepreneurs, explaining how economic incentives, secure property rights, and responsible prosperity can foster a healthy environment. While their seminars are explicitly pro-environment, they explain why ecological values are not the only important ones. They stress that trade-offs among competing values are inescapable. They show why it is ethically and materially irresponsible to pretend such choices can be avoided.

FREE works at the juncture of economics, ecology, and ethics. FREE has built its reputation by providing constructive alternatives to the regulatory paradigm of the past thirty years. The key to its continuing success is straightforward: they have a sincere concern for environmental quality while recognizing the importance of economic prosperity, sound science, and responsible liberty.

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