Gary D. Libecap
Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow
Cochair, Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force

Expertise: Natural resource and environmental economics, specializing in property rights and markets as solutions to the tragedy of the commons.

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Gary D. Libecap is the Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as the Bren Professor of Corporate Environmental Policy, Donald R. Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. An expert on natural resource and environmental economics, he specializes in property rights and markets. His current research examines the legal and regulatory transaction costs of water marketing in the western United States. He is the cochair of Hoover's Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force.