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Over 100 op-eds and columns in, among other outlets, The American Enterprise, Tech Central Station, PERC Reports, Ideas on Liberty, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Reader's Digest (Canada), L'AGEFI, LeMonde.fr, all major Quebec newspapers and several Quebec-based electronic outlets.

Desrochers, P. 2011. "Growing the Next Silicon Valley? The State Vs Spontaneous Order" Polit.ru Lecture Series, April 8 (in Russian).

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Il capitalismo ecologico." La Valle del Siele, December 21.

Shimizu, H., and P. Desrochers. 2010. "‘Food miles’: il dilemma degli attivisti e una scomoda verità." La Valle del Siele, November 11.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "L’autosufficienza alimentare non è garanzia di sviluppo sostenibile." La Valle del Siele, October 29.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "La spesa a km 0: una moda effimera." La Valle del Siele, October 25.

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2010. "La souveraineté alimentaire n’est pas gage de développement durable." www.iedm.org, October 16.

Shimizu, H., and P. Desrochers. 2010. "Food Miles: The Local Food Activists’ Dilemma (a global warming inconvenient truth)." MasterResource, October 15.

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2010. "Le mythe de l’autosuffisance." L'AGEFI, October 14, 2010.

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2010. "L’autosuffisance alimentaire n’est pas gage de développement durable." Le Monde.fr, September 29.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Il n'y a pas de pénurie de logements au Québec" (avec Germain Belzile, IEDM), multilogements.wordpress.com, 15 juillet.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Facts regarding the so-called housing shortage" (with Germain Belzile, MEI), www.iedm.org, July 14.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Il n'y a pas de pénurie de logements au Québec" (avec Germain Belzile, IEDM), www.cyberpresse.ca, 14 juillet.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "L'achat local sauvera-t-il la planète?" Libération, May 12, 2010.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Earth Day: Humanity — Earth’s best friend." National Post, April 22.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Le capitalisme écologique." Cyberpresse.ca, April 22.

Elton, S. and P. Desrochers. 2010. "Local food: Is it good or bad?" The Globe and Mail, March 17.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "Local Food: A Fad that won't Last." CBC Commentary, February 15.

Desrochers, P. 2010. "La souveraineté alimentaire et l'achat local: Une mode éphémère." Commentaires de Radio-Canada, 15 février.

Desrochers, P. 2009. "Deconstructing The Population Bomb." PERC Reports (online edition) 27 (3) (September).

Desrochers, P. 2009. "World Population Day: Malthus lives!" (with Andrew Reed), National Post, July 10.

Shimizu, H. and P. Desrochers. 2009. "Buy Global." Reader's Digest (Canada), June 2009, pp. 70-74.

Shimizu, H. and P. Desrochers. 2008. "Buy Global - The 'Food Mile' Perspective Severely Distorts the Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Production." National Post, November 7.

Desrochers, P. 2007. "Climat : le protocole de Kyoto est-il efficace ?" La Tribune, December 11.

Desrochers, P. 2007. "Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power." Le Québécois Libre, December 9.

Desrochers, P. 2006. "Having your Environmental Cake and Eating it Too!" Le Québécois Libre, November 5.

Desrochers, P. 2006. "A Poverty of Reason: A Manifesto Against Sustainable Development." Le Québécois Libre, July 9.

Desrochers, P. 2006. "Que penser de la simplicité volontaire? Un courant marginal." Protégez-vous, January 1, p. 21.

Desrochers, P. 2005. "Le Protocole de Kyoto: un coup d'épée dans l'air," Le Québécois Libre, December 15.

Desrochers, P. 2005 "La pollution, c’est du gaspillage!," Le Journal de Québec, 28 avril 2005, p. 15

Desrochers, P. 2005. "One Man's Waste Is Another Man's...?" Tech Central Station, April 22.

Desrochers, P. 2003 "Regulatory Roadblocks to Turning Waste to Wealth," Ideas on Liberty, September, pp. 20-22

Desrochers, P. 2003 "'Planned Chaos': Industrial Waste Recycling in Communist Countries," Ideas on Liberty, August, p. 25.

Desrochers, P. 2003 "The Unsustainable Politics of 'Natural Capitalism'," Ideas on Liberty, June, pp. 20-23.

Desrochers, P. 2003 "Saving the Environment for a Profit, Victorian-Style," Ideas on Liberty, May, pp. 32-35.

Desrochers, P  2003 "Le progrès économique et l’environnement sont indissociables," Le Soleil, Avril, p. A-13.

Desrochers, P. 2003"OPINION: Profit-making is good for the environment," The Gazette, April 22, p. A-25.

Desrochers, P. 2003  "Greed is green," Financial Post, March 29, p. FP-11.

Desrochers, P.  2003 "Le prix élevé de l’essence: qui est responsable?," La Presse, February 27, p. A-15.

Desrochers, P. 2002 "Shattering shelter myths," The Gazette, June 29, p. B-7.

Kelly-Gagnon, M. & P. Desrochers. 2002. "Échec à la pauvreté: Le projet de loi antipauvreté constitue-t-il un pas dans la bonne direction? Non, la situation des ménages moins favorisés s'est beaucoup améliorée au fil des ans," La Presse, June 18, p. A-15.

Desrochers, P. 2002 "Free-Market Environmentalism," Laissez Faire Books,  April.

Desrochers, P. 2002. "Quelques mythes sur la banlieue," La Presse, March 17, p. A-13.

Desrochers, P. 2002. "La forêt menacée?," La Presse, February 28, p. A-15.

Desrochers, P. 2002 "FORUM / L'étalement urbain n'est pas une tragédie," La Presse, January 9,  p. A-13.

Desrochers, P. 2002 "Debating urban design," The Globe and Mail, January 9, p. A-11.

Desrochers, P. 2001. "Cités industrielles: une politique à revoir," La Presse, October 22,  p. A-17.

"The Secret Past of Recycling," PERC Reports, September 1999.

Le Québécois Libre archives

 

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2012. "Tribalism and the Local Food Movement." Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada (April 12).

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2012. "Tribalismo E Localismo Alimentare." Movimento Libertario (April 16) (translation Luigi Pirri).

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2010. "L’autosuffisance alimentaire n’est pas gage de développement durable." Institut économique Molinari, Research Paper, October 5.

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2010. "L’autosuffisance alimentaire n’est pas gage de développement durable." Institut économique Molinari, Economic Note, October 5.

Shimizu, H. and P. Desrochers. 2010. "Will buying food locally save the planet?" Montreal Economic Institute, Economic Note, February 16.

Desrochers, P. and Shimizu, H. 2010. "L’achat local de nourriture sauvera-t-il la planète?" Institut économique de Montréal, Note économique, 16 février.

"Forget 'Unfettered' Markets... It is Unfettered Governments that are No Friends to the Environment" (with Andrew Reed), C2C: Canada's Journal of Ideas, vol. 3, no. 1 (July 2009), pp. 8-17. (PDF version)

"Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the Food Mile Perspective" (with Hiroko Shimizu). Mercatus Policy Series, Policy Primer No. 8, October 2008.

"The Invisible Green Hand" (with Andrew Reed). Mercatus Policy Series, Policy Primer No. 7, October 2008.

Concilier profits et environnement: le recyclage des déchets industriels dans une économie de marché [in English: Reconciling Profits and Sustainable Development: Industrial Waste Recycling in Market Economies], Institut économique de Montréal, Research Paper, April 2005.

Reconciling Profits and Sustainable Development: Industrial Waste Recycling in Market Economies, Montreal Economic Institute, Research Note, April 2005. 

Quelques mythes sur les causes de la crise du logement [in English: Some Myths about the Quebec Housing Shortage] Research Paper, Institut économique de Montréal, May 2003.

Comment la recherche du profit améliore la qualité de l’environnement? [In English: Profitability and Sustainable Development: Are They Really Mutually Exclusive?] Research Paper, Institut économique de Montréal, April 2003.

Comment résoudre la crise du logement au Québec? [in English: How to Solve the Quebec Housing Crisis?] Research Paper, Institut économique de Montréal, July 2002.

Comment assurer le développement durable de nos forêts? [in English: Institutions and Sustainable Forestry Practices]. Research Paper, Institut économique de Montréal, March 2002.

Les " Cités ": une politique efficace pour la nouvelle économie? [in English: The "Cités": A Sensible Policy for the New Economy?] Research Paper, Institut économique de Montréal, October 2001.

"Excludability, Creativity and the Case Against the Patent System," Economic Affairs, vol. 20, no. 3 (September 2000), pp. 14-16.

 

I have written a few review essays, i.e., somewhat lengthy critical discussions of other people's writings, that I think can be of some interest to a non-academic audience. Here are my favorites:

"The Post War Intellectual Roots of the Population Bomb. Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival in Retrospect" (with Christine Hoffbauer). Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 1, issue 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 73-97.

"The Death and Life of a Reluctant Urban Icon." A Review Essay on Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Sparberg Alexiou (Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006). Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 21, no. 3 (Fall 2007), pp. 115-36.

 

A few non-gated book reviews that might be of interest to non-academics.

Review of Sex, Science and Profits by Terence Kealey (William Heinemann, 2008). Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 1, issue 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 111-114.

Review of Marc Levinson's The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton University Press, 2006), Independent Review, vol. 12, no. 1, (Summer 2007), pp. 146-149.