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Overview
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The economics profession is giving increased attention to the
institutional structure of societies and to the success or failure
of various rules as means of securing coordination and cooperation.
Hill's research has focused on institutions and their development,
especially on the frontier in the American West. He has examined
homestead laws, the way cattle drives from Texas were organized,
the institutional structure of mining camps in California, wagon
train governance, and the evolution of western water law. He
has also worked on the interface of property rights and environmental
issues.
Hill also maintains an ongoing interest in the West through
his cattle ranch in Montana. He and his wife Lois spend summers
in Bozeman, Montana, where he splits his time between ranch
work and research at a think-tank, PERC, that works on property
rights and environmental issues. The Hill's oldest daughter
and her husband also live on the cattle ranch so some of his
time is spent teaching his two granddaughters to ride, rope,
and fix fence.
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- Principles of Microeconomics
- Environmental Economics
- Public Choice and Constitutional Economics
- American Economic History
- Comparative Economic Systems
- Public Policy
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- American Economics Association
- Economic History Association
- Western Economics Association
- Southern Economics Association
- Cliometrics Society
- Public Choice Society
- Mont Pelerin Society
- Association of Private Enterprise Education
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Individual:
- Theory of property rights and their evolution
- History of the American West
- Environmental and natural resource issues
- U.S. constitutional history
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Selected Papers and Presentations
- Hill, P.J., "Public Choice:
A Review." Faith and Economics, Fall 1999.
- Hill, P.J., and Terry L. Anderson,
"Property Rights in the American West: The Tragedy of the
Commons or the Tragedy of Transaction Costs?" Public
Choice Interpretations of American Economic History,
edited by Jac C. Heckelman, John C. Moorhouse, and Robert
M. Whaples. (Kluwer, 2000).
- Hill, P.J., "Environmental
Theology: A Judeo-Christian Defense," Markets and Morality,
Fall 2000.
- Hill, P.J., "The Best Idea?
Debating the Past & Future of the National Parks," Panel
Discussion, The Howard
R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders,
Yale University, September, 2001.
- Hill, P.J., and Terry L. Anderson,
"The Evolution of Property Rights," Property Rights:
Contract, Conflict, and Law, edited by Terry L. Anderson
and Fred S. McChesney. (Princeton
University Press, 2002).
- Hill, P.J., and Terry L. Anderson,
"Cowboys and Contracts," Journal of Legal Studies, forthcoming.
- Hill, P.J., "What is so Special
About the Farm?" Agricultural Policy and the Environment,
edited by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle, Rowman &
Littlefield, forthcoming.
- Hill, P.J., and Terry L. Anderson,
"Property Rights in Emerging Economies; Lessons from the
American West," Invited plenary address, Association of
Private Enterprise Annual Meeting, March, 2002.
- Hill, P.J., and Terry L. Anderson,
"Government Intervention and Its Cascading Effects on Water
Policy," Invited paper, Association of Private Enterprise
Annual Meeting, 2002.
- Hill, P.J., Who Owns the
Environment? edited with Roger Meiners. (Rowman and
Littlefield, 1998).
- Hill, P.J., The Technology
of Property Rights, edited with Terry L. Anderson. (Rowman
and Littlefield, 2001).
Faculty
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Norton
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